Useful Aftermath Performance: A study of conventional and interventional testimonial performance in the aftermath of natural disasters and meta-cognitive impact on crisis informants. | Lee James | Research Project on ResearchGate

: Useful Aftermath Performance: A study of conventional and interventional testimonial performance in the aftermath of natural disasters and meta-cognitive impact on crisis informants. | Lee James | Research Project on ResearchGate:

Useful Aftermath Performance: A study of conventional and
interventional testimonial performance in the aftermath of natural
disasters and meta-cognitive impact on crisis informants.

• Lee James

Goal: For
Applied Drama practitioners confronted by human crisis or conscient
suffering, the learned and natural responses are ‘to act’; to initiate a
mental rundown of one’s capacity to offer help. This study explores
theatre’s utility and efficacy within the milieu of natural calamity. It
specifically examines conventional (verbatim) and interventional
(applied) testimonial performance and its effects on the informant’s
metacognition and self-efficacy. With foci on the ethics, procedure and
methodology and within the context of the cross-cultural disaster
industry, this thesis asks: When; in what form; and, for who is
aftermath testimonial performance useful?