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Contact!Unload: Military Veterans, Trauma, and Research-Based Theatre

Contact!Unload: Military Veterans, Trauma, and Research-Based Theatre

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This book is a call to action to address the sometimes difficult transition many soldiers face when returning to civilian life. It explores the development, performance, and reception of Contact!Unload, a play that brings to life the personal stories of veterans returning from deployment overseas. The play presents an arts-based therapeutic approach to dealing with trauma. Researchers in theatre and group counselling collaborated with military veterans through a series of workshops to create and perform the work. Based on the lives of military veterans, it depicts ways of overcoming stress injuries encountered during service. The book, which includes the full script of the play, offers academic, artistic, personal, and theoretical perspectives from people directly involved in the performances of Contact!Unload as well as those who witnessed the work as audience members. The play and book serve as a model for using arts-based approaches to mental health care and as a powerful look into the experiences of military veterans.

Table of Contents:
Introduction / Graham W. Lea and George Belliveau Part 1: Researching, Developing, and Creating 1 Staging War: Historical Contexts of Theatre and Social Health Initiatives with Veterans / Michael Balfour 2 Contact!Unload: The Cauldron / Chuck MacKinnon 3 Facilitating Therapeutic Change through Theatre Performance / Alistair G. Gordon, Marv Westwood, and Carson A. Kivari 4 A Soldier’s Tale: “Nobody Understood What I’d Done” / Britney Dennison 5 Listening through Stories: Insights into Writing Contact!Unload / Graham W. Lea 6 Suicides to Sydney / Foster Eastman 7 Coming Home / Tim Laidler 8 Reconnaissance and Reclamation: Learning to Talk about the War / Anna Keefe 9 Impact on Veteran Performers / George Belliveau, Blair McLean, and Christopher Cook 10 Holding on to the Script / Phillip Lopresti Contact!Unload: Annotated Playscript Part 2: Performing, Witnessing, and Evaluating 11 Finding My Truth / Timothy Garthside 12 Unpacking Contact!Unload Using Relational-Cultural Theory / Candace Marshall with Graham W. Lea 13 Contact!Unload Revisited: Degrees of Separation / Lynn Fels 14 Remembering / Carl Leggo 15 A Poet(h)ic Reflection on Contact!Unload: Voices of Women Through War / Heather Duff 16 Soldiers Lead the Way in the Fight for Mental Health among Men / John S. Ogrodniczuk 17 Audience Experience of Vicarious Witnessing in Performing War / Marion Porath, Marla Buchanan, and Elizabeth Banister 18 Understanding the Impacts of Contact!Unload on Audiences / Jennica Nichols, Susan M. Cox, and George Belliveau 19 Vulnerable Strength Seen / JS Valdez and Jennica Nichols Conclusion / George Belliveau and Graham W. Lea Contributors; Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780774862639
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: Military Veterans, Trauma, and Research-Based Theatre
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0774862637
  • Publisher Date: 24 Jul 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 390 gr


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