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Friday, February 17th, 2023

Academic Engagement into Performance: Theatre Professor cfrancis blackchild

cfrancis blackchild is a Bucknell theatre professor who “directs, performs, teaches, and writes for and about theatre”, according to her personal website. In her theatre work and scholarship, blackchild focuses on the social functions and impacts of theatre. She has a focus in her practice on Theatre and Social Change and Theatre of the Oppressed, specifically using interactive performance in the Forum Theatre Technique. Through a course in the fall, blackchild is bringing Forum Theatre to Bucknell, to be presented in “Can We Talk About It?”, performed in Tustin Theatre Feb. 17, 18, and 19.

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