'Not just theatre, also politics, law': on dramaturgical ethics and collective playwriting in Deportation Centre Sjælsmark

Grøn, H. (2022) 'Not just theatre, also politics, law': on dramaturgical ethics and collective playwriting in Deportation Centre Sjælsmark. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 27(4), pp. 405-421. (doi: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2057793)

Abstract

This article reflects on the ethics and process of writing and performing the play This Is Us with a group of rejected asylum seekers from Deportation Centre Sjælsmark in Denmark. Positioned within larger frameworks of political and media hostility, the group pushed for a more radical approach of ‘not just theatre’, but called instead for solidarity within and beyond moments of collective writing. From this process, ‘dramaturgical ethics’ arose as an aesthetic and ethical practice, which can support thinking through responsibilities and relationalities involved in research, theatre making and entering into the world together.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Gron, Helene
• Authors: Grøn, H.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Theatre Film and TV Studies
• Journal Name: Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1356-9783
• ISSN (Online): 1470-112X
• Published Online: 05 April 2022
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2022 The Author
• First Published: First published in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 27(4): 405-421
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License