Workshopping the Ethnodrama: Theatre Majors Living Nontheatrical Lives
Location
1054
Format Type
Event
Format Type
Workshop
Start Date
January 2019
End Date
January 2019
Abstract
The purpose of this qualitative research project has been to empirically collect, analyze, restory (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) and ethhnotheatrically (Saldaña, 2011) portray the lived experiences of former university theatre majors whose professional lives have been or were primarily within disciplines other than theatre in order that we might better understand the career trajectories of “creative workers in [ostensibly] non-creative occupations in non-creative industries” (Ashton, 2015, p. 392). Stories shared by research participants through interview were analyzed for shared and contradictive ideas, perspectives, and experiences, as well as themed and restoried by the researchers into ethnotheatrical performative texts. In this session, the ethnodramatists share their study design, analysis and processes, and excerpts from their developing research-based playscript.
Keywords
Theatre Majors, Liberal Arts, Ethnodrama, Arts-Based Research, Qualitative Research
Workshopping the Ethnodrama: Theatre Majors Living Nontheatrical Lives
1054
The purpose of this qualitative research project has been to empirically collect, analyze, restory (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) and ethhnotheatrically (Saldaña, 2011) portray the lived experiences of former university theatre majors whose professional lives have been or were primarily within disciplines other than theatre in order that we might better understand the career trajectories of “creative workers in [ostensibly] non-creative occupations in non-creative industries” (Ashton, 2015, p. 392). Stories shared by research participants through interview were analyzed for shared and contradictive ideas, perspectives, and experiences, as well as themed and restoried by the researchers into ethnotheatrical performative texts. In this session, the ethnodramatists share their study design, analysis and processes, and excerpts from their developing research-based playscript.
Comments
A 50-minute workshop session is requested.