Research-Based Theatre Lab Publications
Explore the Research-based Theatre Lab’s recent publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and book chapters.
A 2022 special issue in Qualitative Inquiry on ethics and Research-based Theatre, edited by Research-based Theatre Lab scholars Susan Cox, Marilys Guillemin, Jennica Nichols, and Monica Prendergast.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2022
Cox, S., Guillemin, M., Nichols, J., & Prendergast, M. (2022). Ethics in Research-based Theater: Why stories matter. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004221097641
Michalovich, A., Mayer, Y., Hershler, L., Bulk, L.Y., Cook, C., Graf, H., Lee, M., Belliveau, G., Jarus, T. (2022) Through a glass brightly: Generative ethical tensions in Research-based Theatre. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004221097677
Bulk, L. Y. (2022). Cocreating spaces of belonging: A campus workshop using Research-based Theatre for affective learning. LEARNing Landscapes, 15(1), 39-51. https://doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1063
Jarus, T., Mayer, Y., Gross, E., Cook, C., Bulk, L.Y., Hershler, L., Nichols, J. & Belliveau, G. (2022) Bringing disability experiences front stage: Research-based Theatre as a teaching approach to promote inclusive health education. Nurse Education Today, 115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105408
Shigematsu, T., Lea, G. W., Cook, C., Belliveau, G. (2022) A Spotlight on Research-based Theatre. Learning Landscapes Journal. https://doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1081
Lea, G. W. & Belliveau, G. (2022) A Landscape of Ethics in Research-Based Theater: Staging Lives of Family Members Who Have Passed. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004221098991
Nichols, J., Cox, S., Cook, C, Lea, G. W. & Belliveau, G. (2022) Research-based theatre about veterans transitioning home: A mixed methods evaluation of audience impacts. Social Science & Medicine, 292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114578
2021
黃婉萍 (Wong, E.). (2021). Some Reflective Notes on Directing the Online Auto-Ethnotheatre See You Zoom-An Account of the Lives of Hongkongers in the Dramatic 2020 線上自傳式人種誌劇 See You Zoom 的導演反思筆記——香港人在戲劇性的 2020 年下的生活. 亞洲戲劇教育學刊 The Journal of Drama and Theatre Education in Asia (DaTEAsia), 10. http://www.dateasia.tefo.hk/index.php/dateasia/article/view/109
Shigematsu, T., Cook, C., Belliveau, G., & Lea, G. W. (2021) Research-based Theatre across disciplines: A relational approach to inquiry. Applied Theatre Research, 9(1), 55-72. https://www.intellectbooks.com/applied-theatre-research
Chi, X., Belliveau, G., Dong, B. (2021) Looking back and looking forward: Educational Drama in Chinese language arts education. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 26(2), 312-317.
2020
Cook, C., Shigematsu, T., & Belliveau, G. (2020). Teaching Research-based Theatre online: A narrative of practice. Arts Praxis, 7(2), 56-69. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qdUiccGZ3FaIpPcdO6vlcsoHwju8ci-U/view
Lea, G. W., Belliveau, G., & Westwood, M. (2020). Staging therapeutic enactment with veterans in Contact!Unload. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 17(4), 521-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2018.1442776
Cook, C., & Borgen, W. (2020). Give me your hands: Therapeutic experiences of collective theatre creation in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Canadian Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy/Revue Canadienne de Counseling et de Psychothérapie, 54(3). https://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/article/view/69478
2019
Cook, C., Shigematsu, T., & Belliveau, G. (2020). Teaching Research-based Theatre online: A narrative of practice. Arts Praxis, 7(2), 56-69. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qdUiccGZ3FaIpPcdO6vlcsoHwju8ci-U/view
Lea, G. W., Belliveau, G., & Westwood, M. (2020). Staging therapeutic enactment with veterans in Contact!Unload. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 17(4), 521-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2018.1442776
Cook, C., & Borgen, W. (2020). Give me your hands: Therapeutic experiences of collective theatre creation in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Canadian Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy/Revue Canadienne de Counseling et de Psychothérapie, 54(3). https://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/article/view/69478
Belliveau, G., Cook, C., MacLean, B., & Lea, G. W. (2019). Thawing out: Therapy through theatre with Canadian Military veterans. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 62, 45-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2018.11.001
Cook, C., Camman, C., Leyland, A., O’Shea, S., & Towle, A. (2019). Dramatizing learning, performing ourselves: Stories of theatre-based evaluation in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.44172
Bendiksen, S.A., Østern, A., Belliveau, G. (2019). Literacy events in writing play workshops with children aged three to five: A study of agential cuts with the artographic triple dimensions as a lens. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 20(3).
Books
2016-2022
Bird, J., Donelan, K., Sinclair, C., Wales, P. (2021). Alice Hoy is not a building: An ethnographic performance about women in academia. Drama Australia Monograph No. Thirteen. Drama Australia.
Belliveau, G. & Lea, G. W. (Eds.) (2020). Contact!Unload: Military veterans, trauma, and research-based theatre. UBC Press.
Cook, C. (2020). Quick Bright Things. Playwrights Canada Press.
Shigematsu, T. (2018). 1 Hour Photo. Talonbooks.
Shigematsu, T. (2016). Empire of the Son. Talonbooks.
Belliveau, G. & Lea, G. W. (Eds.) (2016). Research-based Theatre: An artistic methodology. Intellect Ltd.
Book Chapters
2009-2022
Bird, J., Donelan, K., Sinclair, C., Wales, P. (2021). Alice Hoy is not a building: An ethnographic performance about women in academia. Drama Australia Monograph No. Thirteen. Drama Australia.
Belliveau, G. & Lea, G. W. (Eds.) (2020). Contact!Unload: Military veterans, trauma, and research-based theatre. UBC Press.
Cook, C. (2020). Quick Bright Things. Playwrights Canada Press.
Shigematsu, T. (2018). 1 Hour Photo. Talonbooks.
Shigematsu, T. (2016). Empire of the Son. Talonbooks.
Belliveau, G. & Lea, G. W. (Eds.) (2016). Research-based Theatre: An artistic methodology. Intellect Ltd.
Nichols, J., Belliveau, G., Cox, S., Lea, G. W. & Cook, C. (2022) Key questions in evaluating audience impact: A mixed methods approach in research-based theatre. In D. Snyder-Young & M. Omasta (Eds.) Impacting Theatre Audiences: Methods for Studying Change. New York: Routledge. (pp. 161-172).
Cook, C. (2022). Gerty. In D. Conrad & S. Wiebe (Eds.), Educational fabulations: Teaching and learning for a world yet to come. (pp. 141-148). Springer International Publishing.
Belliveau, G., Cox, S., Nichols, J., Lea, G. W. & Cook, C. (2021) Examining the Ethics of Research-Based Theatre through Contact!Unload. In T. Prentki & A. Breed (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance. London: Routledge. (pp. 141-148).
Wales, P. (2021). Rewriting Spatial Conflict: Drama Box and Verbatim Theatre. In C Rajendran & R. Gough (Eds.) Changing Places: Drama Box and the Politics of Space. Performance Research Books.
Belliveau, G., McLean, B., & Cook, C. (2020). Impact on veteran performers. In G. Belliveau & G. Lea (Eds.) Contact!Unload: Military veterans, trauma, and research-based theatre (pp. 79-92). UBC Press.
Nichols, J., Cox, S., & Belliveau, G., (2020). Understanding the impacts of Contact!Unload on audiences. In G. Belliveau & G. Lea (Eds.) Contact!Unload: Military veterans, trauma, and research-based theatre (pp. 160-171). UBC Press.
Lea, G. W. (2020). Listening through stories: Insights into writing Contact!Unload. In G. Belliveau & G. W. Lea with M. Westwood (Eds.), Contact!Unload: Military veterans, trauma, and research-based theatre. UBC Press.
Lea, G. W. with Belliveau, G., & The Company. (2020) Contact!Unload. In G. Belliveau & G. W. Lea with M. Westwood (Eds.), Contact!Unload: Military veterans, trauma, and research-based theatre. UBC Press.
Marshall, C. with Lea, G. W. (2020). Unpacking Contact!Unload using relational-cultural theory. In G. Belliveau & G. W. Lea with M. Westwood (Eds.), Contact!Unload: Military veterans, trauma, and research-based theatre. UBC Press.
Belliveau, G., & Lea, G. W. (2020). Concluding remarks. In G. Belliveau & G. W. Lea with M. Westwood (Eds.), Contact!Unload: Military veterans, trauma, and research-based theatre. UBC Press.
Lea, G. W., & Belliveau G. (2020). Introduction. In G. Belliveau & G. W. Lea with M. Westwood (Eds.), Contact!Unload: Military veterans, trauma, and research-based theatre. UBC Press.
Cox, S. & Belliveau, G. (2019). Health theatre: Embodied research. In P. Leavy (Ed.) Oxford handbook on methods for public scholarship (pp. 335-357). Oxford University Press.
Lea, G. W. & Belliveau, G. (2019). Research-based Theatre as educational research innovation. In M. Peters & R. Heraud (Eds.) Encyclopedia of educational innovation (pp. 1-7). Springer.
Belliveau, G. & Prendergast, M. (2019). Shadows of history, echoes of war: Performing alongside veteran soldiers and prison inmates in two Canadian applied theatre projects. In M. Finneran & M. Anderson (Eds.) Education and theatres: Beyond the four walls (pp. 211-225). Springer.
Wales, P. (2016). Temporarily yours: Foreign domestic workers in Singapore. In G. Belliveau & G. W. Lea (Eds.) Research-based theatre: An artistic methodology (pp. 147–162). Intellect.
Bird, J. M., Donelan, K. J., Sinclair, C. & Wales, P. (2010). “Alice Hoy is not a building—women in academia”. In J. Ackroyd & J. O’Toole (Eds.) Performing research: Tensions, triumphs, and trade-offs of ethnodrama (pp.81–103). Trentham Books.
Donelan, K., Bird, J., Wales, P., & Sinclair, C. (2009). How Did You Get Here? Exploring Ethnographic Performance. In J. Shu & P. Chan (Eds.) Planting Trees of Drama with Global Vision in Local Knowledge: IDEA 2007 Dialogues (pp.490–500). Hong Kong: International Association of Theatre Critics.