Reflections on a Peace Education Theatre Project: Performing Dario Fo and Franca Rame's Peace Mum

Abstract

This essay offers reflective practitioner insights into an applied theatre peace education project performed in and around Victoria BC in 2007 and 2008. The essay consists of three reflections: The first offers a narrative overview of the project and production, including the post-show conversations with student audiences that were carried out in-role; the second is in poetic form that invites deeper levels of understanding and response to a lived performance event; the third and final reflection surveys performative writing as an effective and affective means to write about performed research or other kinds of performances such as applied theatre.