Creating Life Story Theatre

"Balancing practical exercises and case studies, this book equips practitioners, students and academics with guidance for exploring the process of making theatre from personal stories. Inviting you to consider the challenges and rewards of this specialized area of theatre making, it contextualizes the authors' original approaches within the range of existing applied theatre practice. Offering guiding principles for practitioners undertaking work in this field and sharing techniques and exercises to help develop your style and approach, it also features handy hints and pitfalls to consider while working with someone's most precious commodity: their life story"--