Webinar #27 | George Belliveau, Tetsuro Shigematsu and Christina Cook - Research-Based Theatre

In this unique online presentation, Canadian theatre artists George Belliveau, Tetsuro Shigematsu and Christina Cook will offer an illustration of the nature of Research-Based Theatre, and then speak to the methodology they used to create it.

Please note the morning start time for this webinar, due to our presenters' location in Canada.

Research-Based Theatre (RbT) is a qualitative, arts-based methodology that invites researchers, artists, educators, and research participants to collectively translate and transform research phenomena into theatre. This approach makes use of applied drama and theatre strategies, and at its core rests on two commitments: to honour and ethically explore the research context, and to engage and commit to the art form of theatre. This session explores key aspects of RbT and the tension amid these dual commitments.

RbT is frequently applied in collaboration with a range of interdisciplinary research groups, such as Health Sciences, Education, Engineering, Nursing, to Social Work – each looking to expand and re-imagine their approaches to knowledge generation and translation. RbT is a living, often messy, and fluid methodology. To provide an entry point into the methodology, in this seminar these artists will share a short scene illustrating RbT in practice. They will then speak to some of the projects they have been involved in and discuss the learnings that emerged in these collaborative partnerships, as well as give the audience an opportunity to enquire directly about this fascinating process.