Kay Hepplewhite
Biographic Data
| ID | 7546994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kay Hepplewhite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kay |
| FAMILY NAME | Hepplewhite |
| SIGNATURE | HEPPLEWHITE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1081-4887 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Applied theatre is the mainstream of the future
Applied theatre can be the mainstream theatre of the future with a blended role of participant/artist productively situated at its heart. Further, co-created performances have the potential to affect radical social change with beneficial experiences achieved through meaningful relational exchange in innovative creative spaces. In this vision for 2056, contemporary case studies offer models where community members are situated centre-stage, rare f…
Curious about theatre
This article uses a theory of recognition and empathy to examine how human connection online is developed in digital applied theatre practice and pedagogy. Theatre activities and university teaching were challenged during the pandemic 2020. Here, the work of Curious Monkey Theatre Company and a collaborative digital learning project for university students, Curious About Theatre, show responsive adaptations. Artistic Director Amy Golding describe…
How young artist/facilitators use their unsettled identity to develop creative ageing practice
This article explores the practices of three young artist/facilitators, illustrating how they use their own age identity to develop expertise in working with older people in residential care homes. A research process of reflective dialogues reveals that they respond to the arts and drama-based workshop practices at creative ageing organisation Equal Arts with a growing value of their youthfulness. A self-defined ‘unsettled’ nature facilitates the…
The applied theatre practitioner as dialogic hero
Mikhail Bakhtin proposed that a ‘hero is not only a discourse about himself and his immediate environment, but also a discourse about the world’. This short article examines the working practice of an applied theatre practitioner, drawing on Bakhtin’s interpretations of the hero and his writings on dialogism. Artist Kate Sweeney’s facilitation of a storytelling workshop with older people is explored in order to place the practitioner as the centr…
Here's another nice mess
This account discusses ‘reflective dialogues’, a process utilising video to re-examine in-action decision-making with theatre practitioners who operate in community contexts. The reflexive discussions combine with observation, text and digital documentation to offer a sometimes ‘messy’ (from Schön 1987) dynamic to the research and provide multiple insights through reviewing the working processes. This account presents the method, along with examp…
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Here's another nice mess
This account discusses ‘reflective dialogues’, a process utilising video to re-examine in-action decision-making with theatre practitioners who operate in community contexts. The reflexive discussions combine with observation, text and digital documentation to offer a sometimes ‘messy’ (from Schön 1987) dynamic to the research and provide multiple insights through reviewing the working processes. This account presents the method, along with examp…
The applied theatre practitioner as dialogic hero
Mikhail Bakhtin proposed that a ‘hero is not only a discourse about himself and his immediate environment, but also a discourse about the world’. This short article examines the working practice of an applied theatre practitioner, drawing on Bakhtin’s interpretations of the hero and his writings on dialogism. Artist Kate Sweeney’s facilitation of a storytelling workshop with older people is explored in order to place the practitioner as the centr…
How young artist/facilitators use their unsettled identity to develop creative ageing practice
This article explores the practices of three young artist/facilitators, illustrating how they use their own age identity to develop expertise in working with older people in residential care homes. A research process of reflective dialogues reveals that they respond to the arts and drama-based workshop practices at creative ageing organisation Equal Arts with a growing value of their youthfulness. A self-defined ‘unsettled’ nature facilitates the…
Curious about theatre
This article uses a theory of recognition and empathy to examine how human connection online is developed in digital applied theatre practice and pedagogy. Theatre activities and university teaching were challenged during the pandemic 2020. Here, the work of Curious Monkey Theatre Company and a collaborative digital learning project for university students, Curious About Theatre, show responsive adaptations. Artistic Director Amy Golding describe…
Applied theatre is the mainstream of the future
Applied theatre can be the mainstream theatre of the future with a blended role of participant/artist productively situated at its heart. Further, co-created performances have the potential to affect radical social change with beneficial experiences achieved through meaningful relational exchange in innovative creative spaces. In this vision for 2056, contemporary case studies offer models where community members are situated centre-stage, rare f…
Theatre and Performance Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Artistic and Creative Research (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · The arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art Education and Development (1 works)