Abstract
In this article, I outline an approach to interviewing and "data" interpretation that I encountered in a feminist, community-based participatory theatre project. In 1998 I began work with Jan Selman, a feminist theatre director with many years of experience in community theatre on a project we called Transforming Dangerous Spaces (TDS). This name was selected to illustrate the risk-taking and dangerous spaces that exist in many feminist organizing and coalition projects and a desire to create more equitable social relations among women. The purpose of the community-based collaborative project was to use the power of popular or participatory theatre processes to explore the conflict and challenges (mainly in relation to difference) that seemed to be recurring within North American feminist coalition and feminist organizing efforts. Twelve other women joined the project, including two other experienced facilitators (Sheila James and Caroline White), and we began a journey of discovery, meeting every Saturday morning at a local neighborhood house for two intensive four-month periods.
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