Forum: Devised Theatre as Activism in a Religious and Spiritual Context

Abstract

This discussion forum brings together three professional theatre artists with a variety of backgrounds in scholarship, education, and ministry. They are all American artists, and they all work within and alongside the Christian community, using theater to create connections and bridges
between religions as well as within the Christian church writ large. In a secular, Western society that considers itself “postreligious”
but is obviously deeply invested in Christian culture and ethics, these artists are creating dialogue and shaking up the institutions of both government and church in ways that directly contradict the prejudices of the so-called “Christian right” of post-Obama United States identity politics.

The transcript of this forum is an edited version of a conversation that took place between Catharine Christof Dada, Victoria Rue, and Robert Choiniere via e-mail over the course of about one month.