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Recommended Reading

Books, Chapters and Articles by Geese Theatre Company

Baim, Brookes, Mountford (Eds) - The Geese Theatre Handbook, Waterside Press

Bergman and Hewish - The Violent Illusion (in Liebmann, Arts Approaches to Conflict, Jessica Kingsley Publishers)

Farrall and Mountford - The House of Four Rooms (in Thompson (Ed), Prison Theatre Practices and Perspectives, Jessica Kingsley Publishers)

Hewish - Dramatic Improvisation (Cox (Ed), Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor, Jessica Kinglsey Publishers)

Watson - The Drama of Change (in Mailout, October / November 2006)

Watson - Lift Your Mask! Geese Theatre in Performance (in Prentki and Preston (Eds) An Applied Theatre Reader, Routledge 2008)

 

 

Books which contain chapters on Geese Theatre Company

Balfour - The Use of Drama in the Rehabilitation of Violent Male Offenders, The Edwin Mellen Press

Moore, P - Acting Out: Therapy for Groups, Arena

Jackson - Theatre, Education and the Making of Meanings, Manchester University Press

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The following is not an exhaustive list but a collection of some of the books on the Geese Theatre Company library shelves.

Theory

Balfour, Michael - Theatre in Prison, Intellect

Blatner, Dr A - Acting In - Practical Applications of Psychodramatic Methods, Free Association Books

Boal, Augusto - Theatre of the Oppressed, Pluto Classic

Chapman and Hough - Evidence Based Practice: A Guide to Effective Practice, Home Office

Gilligan, J - Violence: Reflections on our Deadliest Epidemic, Jessica Kingsley

Gilligan, J - Preventing Violence, Thames and Hudson

Goldstein, A - The Prepare Curriculum, Research Press

Johnson and O'Neil (Eds) - Dorothy Heathcote: Collected Writings on Education and Drama, Routledge

Holmes and Karp (Eds) - Psychodrama: Inspiration and Technique, Routledge

Jenkins, A - Invitations to Responsibility, Dulwich Centre

Jennings, S - Dramatherapy (Vol 1-3), Croom Helm

McGuire, J - Cognitive Behavioural Practice, Home Office

Miiler and Rollnick - Motivational Interviewing, Guildford

Salisbury and Jackson - Challenging Macho Values, Falmer Press

Stordeur and Stiller - Ending Men's Violence against their Partners, Sage

Novaco, R - Anger and Coping with Provocation, University of California

Ross and Fabiano, Time to Think, Inst. of Social Science and Arts Inc

Theatre

Baim, Brookes, Mountford (Eds) - The Geese Theatre Handbook, Waterside Press

Bergman and Hewish - Challenging Experience, Wood and Barnes

Brandes, D - Gamesters Handbook (1&2), Hutchinson

Boal, A - Games for Actors and Non Actors, Routledge

Boal, A - The Rainbow of Desire, Routledge

Clifford and Herrman - Making a Leap: Theatre of Empowerment, Jessica Kingsley

Dynes, R - Creative Games in Groupwork, Winslow

Fine and Macbeth - Playing with Fire: Training for the Creative Use of Conflict, Youth Work Press

Jennings, S - Creative Drama in Groupwork, Winslow

Johnson, C - House of Games: Making Theatre From Everyday Life, NH Books

Johnson, K - Impro, Eyre Methuen

Novelly, M - Theatre Games for Young Performers, Meriwether

Poulter, C - Playing the Game, MacmillanRawlins and Rich  - Look, Listen and Trust: A Framework for Learning through Drama, Nelson

Theodorou, M - Ideas that work in Drama, Stanley Thomas

Spolin, V - Theatre Games for Rehearsal, Northwestern University Press

Spolin, V - Improvisation for the Theatre, Northwestern University Press

 

Research and Evaluation Papers about Geese Theatre Projects

Reiss et al - Dramatherapy for mentally disordered offenders: changes in levels of anger, Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 8

Blacker, Watson and Beech - A combined drama-based and CBT approach to working with self-reported anger aggression (in Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 18 p129-137 (2008)). To view this article online visit: www.interscience.wiley.com and enter 10.1002/cbm.686 in the search box.)

Harkins, Pritchard, Haskayne, Watson and Beech - An evaluation of Geese Theatre's Reconnect Programme - to be published

 

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