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Dramatizing Data: A Primer
Johnny Saldaña
Arizona State University
Due to the lack of "how-to" pieces in the methods literature, a theatre artist who later became an ethnographer offers this personal primer in playwriting with qualitative data. Ethnodramatic research representation should be chosen not for its novelty but for its appropriateness as a medium for telling a participant’s story credibly, vividly, and persuasively. An overview of such fundamental playwriting principles as plotting, characterization, monologues, dialogue, and staging is given. The author also proposes that collaborative ventures between ethnographers and theatre practitioners should be initiated to heighten the artistic quality of ethnotheatrical presentations.
Key Words: ethnodrama • ethnotheatre • ethnographic performance • performance • writing
Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 9, No. 2,
218-236 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800402250932
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