Ricerc@Sapienza

The project aims to define a standard status of community theatre practices within performing arts as supply for social, health care and education sectors and for social inclusion.

In particular, a plastic educational model is to be established on the following bases:
- Community theatre experimentations currently active;
- Practical field experiences;
- Suitable valuation models necessary for remodelling protocols to be applied according to each experience's requirement, in a mutual integration of top-down and bottom-up approaches.

The research project requires multi-disciplinary skills, and expertise in various fields, both academic and professional, relating to:
- Performing arts disciplines;
- Psychophysics;
- Statistics.

The research purpose lies in the definition of a training model for applied theatre facilitators and conductors, and in a series of publications, video documentaries and documented trials related to transmedia storytelling shapes and aimed at defining drama teaching techniques applied to the social context. Furthermore, the project provides for the establishment of validation protocols of theatrical practices, in order to allow objective and measurable checks of community theatre interventions. At this stage, the research project's external partners have a strategic role.

Those purposes are pursued through experimental educational activities to identify the key competences necessary to qualify applied theatre facilitators, and to pinpoint the variability of the working conditions in which languages and theatre processes need to interact.

A non-secondary project's impact will be the further recognition of the applied theatre practitioner as a profession.