Ethnotheatre in a Prison Context: The performative Interview - Ricardo Seiça Salgado

Ethnotheatre is a critical world-making practice that combines ethnography, social knowledge and the performing arts. As an art-based methodology, it aims to research a common ground with a group of people to adapt these observations and knowledge to an aesthetic performance as the practice of participant observation, and the anthropology toolkit methodology.

In the transition to the 21st century and the disciplinary areas of theatre, education, health, and oral history, ethnotheatre begins to be thought and conceptualised as practice and methodology.

As a case study, an ethnotheatre project in prison wants to understand how inmates relate to and act about the problematic human conditions they experience. The research riddle was deciphering the mechanisms of resistance and control underlying inmates’ relationships in their confined li ...