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Performing Communities: Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted in Eight U.S. Communities (review)

Bill Rauch, former artistic director and co-founder of Cornerstone Theater Company, describes Cornerstone’s approach to community-based performance as reliant on a “[m]ultiplicity of viewpoints” (74). In many respects, Robert leonard and Ann Kilkelly’s text, Performing Communities: Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted in Eight U.S. Communities, models that emphasis on multiplicity in its approach. Although leonard and Kilkelly are the primary authors of the study, the book describes and analyzes the work of six additional field researchers who visited the companies and conducted interviews with ensemble members as well as with community participants. This collection of voices comes together within Performing Communities. The result is an ambitious exploration into the histories, techniques, and challenges of eight community-based theatre companies in the united States.