What Artistic, Pedagogic and Therapeutic Challenges can Arise with a Community Based Theatre Project

Abstract

This paper focuses on and discusses the strategies to solve different artistic,pedagogic and therapeutic challenges in a staged musical based on local life,language and history with a diversity of people in a small town in Norway. Using a graphic model comprised of three intersecting circles, where each circle represents the artistic, pedagogic or therapeutic challenge, I analyze both the overlapping and the distinct areas where these challenges occur. This analysis covers the process from the project’s inception through to the final performance.