Table of contents : Cover Half-Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Series Editor’s Foreword List of Contributors Theatrical Flourishing: An Introduction 1. Actors as Surrogate Sufferers? Toward a Model for Well-.Being in Acting Training 2. The Potential of Pain: Conflict Dramaturgy and Transformation in the Theater 3. Braver Angels: Performing Comity in a Polarized Era 4. Beyond Survival: Theater of the Oppressed, Flourishing While Fighting, and Fighting to Flourish 5. Community Musical Theater as a Human Flourishing Project 6. Teaching Theater and Detroit History for Undergraduates to Flourish 7. Changing States: The Well-.Being of English-.Language Theater in Québec 8. Refusing to Flourish: Jennifer Moon and Anat Shinar Perform Self-.Help 9. On Laughter and the Bonds of Community 10. Touching Theater: Practice, Criticism, and Aesthetics of Touch in the Flourishing Theatrical Moment 11. Theater, Performance, and Community Cultural Development for Human Thriving 12. Theatrical Flourishing: A Roundtable Discussion Index