Post-performance methodologies: the value of memory for theatre with young people

Abstract

This paper argues for the value of post-performance workshops in extending the memories of theatre for young people. It examines research that investigated the ‘impact' of touring theatre for young people in regional settings through discussion of two contemporary productions, ‘I Call My Brothers' and ‘Melbourne Talam'. The workshop methodology explores student's complex negotiations of place, subjectivity and belonging by individually and collectively re-assembling the dramaturgy of each production. By activating theatre memories, it suggests young people practise modes of spectatorship in which they recover knowledge of ‘self and other’ in relation to broader cultural and political questio..