Stripping to the Undercoat: A Review and Reflections on a Piece of Organizational Theatre

In this article, we review one "tailor-made play", one piece of organization theatre called Varnishing the Truth. We then reflect on the questions we asked of ourselves while watching this performance and reviewing the video of it: how does this activity relate to its claimed theoretical f...

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Veröffentlicht in:Organization studies 2004-06, Vol.25 (5), p.841
Hauptverfasser: Clark, Timothy, Mangham, Iain
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In this article, we review one "tailor-made play", one piece of organization theatre called Varnishing the Truth. We then reflect on the questions we asked of ourselves while watching this performance and reviewing the video of it: how does this activity relate to its claimed theoretical foundations (Boals forum theatre)? Is forum theatre an appropriate model for organization theatre? Can things be made to move by an activity such as the one to which we were an audience? In the process of answering these questions, we emphasize the reductive adoption of radical techniques (that is, Boals forum theatre); the depoliticization of corporate theatre; and, the limitations of the theory of negotiated order as a model for learning, given the discursive construction of organizational roles. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0170-8406
1741-3044