Intimacy in performance guidelines for legal minors: A case study from the United Kingdom

Abstract

ABSTRACT In the post #MeToo era, the professional creative industries have engaged with the vital work of examining and re-imagining the centering of its processes and structures. Often excluded from the current discussion and fora, youth and student theatre performed in training and academic environments engages young people with materials that challenge and provoke through intimate exchanges. There have been pertinent strides in the identification of the importance of ensuring that creative theatrical learning experiences for young people engaged in theatre endeavor are safe, equitable and empowering beyond core essential safeguarding considerations. Looking to the formal field of theatre literature on the growing discipline of intimacy and intimacy coordination in professional theatre events, this proposal seeks to bridge the gap in the theoretical literature by offering new knowledge that seeks to bring together the growing fields of intimacy coordination and empowered student performers by (re)centering the process of the theatrical event as the student performer’s safeguarded experience of theatrical intimacy, with the author drawing up and recommending the adoption of Intimacy In Performance Guidelines For Legal Minors.