- Title
- The “lived” experience of Playback Theatre practitioners in post-war Sri Lanka: naivety, altruism, reciprocal caring, and psychological growth
- Creator
- McCormack, Lynne; Henry, Evelyn
- Relation
- Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice Vol. 9, Issue 3, pp. 224-237
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2016.1262879
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Background: Playback Theatre is applied theatre that draws on real-life stories from its audience to reflect the psychosocial needs of individuals and communities. Contemporarily it is being used to support those exposed to war/disaster; however, the impact of such work on its practitioners, is under researched. Methods: Using interpretative phenomenological analysis positive and negative subjective interpretations were sought from five Western Playback Theatre practitioners who taught in post-civil war Sri Lanka. Results: One superordinate theme, Naivety, Humility and Hope amongst the Rubble, encompassed five subordinate themes. These reveal an integral struggle experienced by Western practitioners unprepared for a culturally different lens. Conclusion: Teaching Playback Theatre in post-war Sri Lanka for these practitioners exposed the gap between the desire to help cross-culturally and their experienced reality. Over time, the collision of Western naivety with good intent facilitated an integral and humble search to be wiser humanitarians cross-culturally in these participants.
- Subject
- Playback Theatre; Sri Lanka; war and conflict; post-traumatic growth; interpretative phenomenological analysis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1329833
- Identifier
- uon:26251
- Identifier
- ISSN:1753-3015
- Rights
- This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice on 22/12/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17533015.2016.1262879
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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