Front cover -- Preliminaries -- Contents -- Preface -- The Lawnmowers -- 1 Defining Popular Theatre: What is it? -- Where has it come from? -- The South will Rise Again -- Defining the Territory -- A conversation with two practitioners -- Ways of Looking at Popular Theatre -- Risking friendship in a play about landmines -- 2 Intentions -- Agents of Change 2 -- Schools of thought about Community Work -- Methodologies and Involvement Strategies -- Some Thoughts about Techniques -- Popular Theatre,Cultural Awareness and Solidarity: Canada to Nicaragua -- The Interplay of Intention and Popular Theatre Choices -- 3 Contexts -- The Development of Popular Theatre in Britain -- We are One Tribe:the theatre company Blah Blah Blah and Eileen Pennington -- The Development of Popular Theatre in Canada -- From Theatre to Community: Dilemmas of an Estonian theatre community in Vancouver -- 4 Forms of Theatre What Theatre Can Do (and What it Can 't) -- The Psyche Project -- Presentational Theatre -- Participatory Theatre -- In a Fix -Theatre in Health Education in Schools -- Participatory Process -- The Practice of Justice -- 5 Popular Theatre Process -- Producing the Process:Processing the Product -- The Creators -- Becoming One With the Mud - 'Running Through The Devil 's Club ':A Theatrical Exploration in Healing -- Transformative Fictions -- The Nature of Popular Theatre Process -- Participation -- Theatre for Living -- Tightropes of Facilitation -- Shrinkwrapped -- Inventing a Process -- Questioning Some Assumptions about Process -- Negotiating Critical Awareness and Ownership:community drama within a self-advocacy group for adults with learning difficulties -- Community In(ter)vention -- Women's Theatre and Creativity Centre -- Owning (up to)the Process -- Popular Theatre Process is not a Technique -- 6 Dialogue on Issues -- Funding -- Impact Assessment.

Networking/Partnerships -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Back cover.