TY - JOUR AU - Buttry, Jacob AU - Friedgen, Kristina PY - 2022/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Disruptive Collaboration in a Theatre of Radical Compassion JF - PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research JA - PARtake VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.33011/partake.v5i1.1489 UR - https://partakejournal.org/index.php/partake/article/view/1489 SP - AB - <p class="p1">Amid calls to rethink hierarchical structures in theatre and decolonize pedagogical, rehearsal and performance spaces, Jacob Buttry and Kristina Friedgen began to develop and explore a Theatre of Radical Compassion (TRC) as a philosophical approach to performance that centers relationship care within rehearsals and productions. As such, our initial application of TRC on a production of <em>Everybody</em> at Arizona State University proved successful in cultivating a space of encouragement, collaboration, and mutual respect that took root in productive and humanizing ways. This paper offers an account of how a primary focus on relationship care in rehearsal led to a productive and empowering space through collaboration and inclusive practices that ultimately led young artists to contribute more deeply to the interpretation of the play and to thereby exercise more ownership over the rehearsal process and product than they traditionally had experienced. We conclude that our rehearsal process for <em>Everybody</em> employed an intentional gathering of diverse perspectives in the rehearsal room, a collaborative method of artistic creation, and designated times of playful exploration, resulting in positive outcomes for company members such as inclusive representation of experiences in the final production, collective ownership of the creative output, and mutual growth for company members.</p> ER -