Youth, Theatre and Listening as a Political Alternative

This event has been moved to 27 October, to accommodate the unexpected Australian public holiday on the original date. Please note the morning (10am) start time for participants in Australia.

Join theatre and pedagogy scholar Distinguished Professor Kathleen Gallagher of the University of Toronto and playwright Andrew Kushnir to hear about the workshops they conducted, the play and book they wrote, and the whole, fresh approach to co-creation they forged with their young collaborators.

For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose. Collaborating across institutions, theatres, and community spaces, the research in Hope in a Collapsing World mobilizes theatre to build its ways of working with young people as they seek the language of performance to communicate their worries, fears, and dreams to a global network of researchers and a wider public.

A collaboration between a social scientist and a playwright and using both ethnographic study and playwriting, Hope in a Collapsing World represents a groundbreaking hybrid format of research text and an original script – titled Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope – for reading, experimentation, and performance.

Find the book Hope in a Collapsing World here.