Performing Recovery

Addiction, Vulnerability and the Ethics of Representation
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-367-69686-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance

Performing Recovery explores how theatre and performance can reimagine addiction recovery as a creative and collaborative cultural practice.

The book draws on twenty years of research and collaboration to investigate how people in recovery use artistic expression to challenge stigma and build new forms of belonging. Through case studies such as the Addiction Recovery Arts Network, Fallen Angels Dance Theatre, Portraits of Recovery, small performance adventures, the Pink Flamingos Project, and WilL Dickie’s White Sun, it reframes vulnerability as a source of creativity and connection. Combining theoretical frameworks with practical insights, the book demonstrates how socially engaged performance makes recovery visible, valued, and understood in new ways.

This book is ideal for artists, researchers, healthcare professionals, and students in performance studies, applied arts, social work, and addiction recovery programs, it will also appeal to anyone interested in creative expression, community arts, and social justice.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zontou, Zoe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Pop Art, Minimalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

About Author

Contributor Biographies

Introduction: Performing Addiction Recovery Cultures

Chapter 1: Vulnerable States: On Cultures of Addiction and the Ethics of Representation

Chapter 2: Vulnerable Becomings: Recoverism and Micro Practices of Worldbuilding

Chapter 3: Fallen Angels Dance Theatre

Chapter 4: Pink Flamingos: Vulnerability, Maternal Action, and Recovery

Chapter 5: WilL Dickie and Zoe Zontou White Sun

Chapter 6: Performing Addiction Recovery Futures

Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Zoe Zontou is Associate Professor of Drama at Liverpool Hope University, where she specialises in socially engaged performance, and the role of the arts in addiction recovery.