The Research-based Theatre Lab promotes theatre as research and collaborative initiatives between researchers, artists, and community members.

Explore a recent special issue in Qualitative Inquiry on ethics and Research-based Theatre (RbT), edited by Research-based Theatre Lab scholars Susan Cox, Marilys Guillemin, Jennica Nichols, and Monica Prendergast.  

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Images and Media from Past Events

  • March 14, 2019

    Dark Secrets

    Dark Secrets is part of a research project being led by the UBC School of Social Work that focuses on student to student abuse in Canada's Residential School System.  The play shares acts of kindness and acts of resistance associated with the collected narratives of Residential School…

  • May 6, 2022

    Using RbT with D/deaf and hearing teachers

    Simangele Mabena will share a work-in-progress based on the exploration of D/deaf and hearing teachers’ roles and pedagogy in teaching South African Sign Language using RbT, while navigating her role as a researcher. Session Chair: Susan Cox.

  • Rock the Boat Poster
    November 8, 2019

    Rock The Boat

    Don’t Rock the Boat began as a live theatre workshop focusing on wellbeing issues that arise within the context of graduate student supervisory relationships. In early 2020, we began a new phase of the work that involved a brand new script that brought greater emphasis to issues of equity,…


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