Abstract

Every emerging field of study seems to go through a period of growing pains in which attempts are made to discover collectively shared language and disciplinary boundaries. Recent discussions and publications related to community-based or grassroots theatre reveal the extent to which this type of exchange is taking place in this fertile area of theatre and performance studies. Theorists and practitioners such as Sonja Kuftinec, Richard Owen Geer, Bruce McConachie, Jan Cohen-Cruz, and Richard Schechner have all worked to define, describe, and theorize a wide array of performance practices associated with grassroots theatre. Each of the three books reviewed here contributes to this disciplinary development in unique ways.

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