She also created the theatre show "Abandoned Brothers" with military veterans suffering from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and their families. (Re-Live, Cardiff, Wales 2012) This show has been nominated for the Young Critics Award, Theatre in Wales Awards 2013.
the wider, political impact of this process.
When does the personal become political? Does placing real people and their own true stories on stage have the potential to change public policy? Can theatre be an agent for social change? Is this work Witness theatre, public catharsis, documentary? A therapeutic exchange in the theatre?
Alison will be researching and engaging with the work of leading arts in health practitioners and artists, including Professor Michael Balfour and Sarah Woodland of Griffith University, Australia, Collective Encounters in Liverpool, Outside the Wire, USA and Quarantine, UK.
She also hopes to engage with Dr Gwen Adshead, a clinical psychologist at Broadmoor Hospital who is a leader in the field of narrative approaches to healing and transformation.
Alison will undertake training with the Northern School of Psychodrama and the Birmingham School of Psychodrama. This innovative training will guide her in a new approach as she enters into an experiential performance project where she herself will experience the process of life review and autobiographical performance from the perspective of the participant - experiencing what it is like to tell her own story.