Facets of human conditions: Some artistic records and ethnotheatrical interpretations of ex-gambling addicts

doi:10.1386/atr_00076_1

Jack Shu

Facets of human conditions: Some artistic records and ethnotheatrical interpretations of ex-gambling addicts

Literature and Literary Theory
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Cultural Studies

This article aims to display an ethnodrama playscript with the story of a gambling husband coping with his financial struggle and his family’s emotional reactions. The researcher was involved as collaborating playwright in the project, assisting a devising director who led a group of ex-gambling addicts and their family members referred by a Hong Kong counselling service. The ethnotheatre generated, interpreted and mediated data from interviews and devising sessions, and exhibited a painful story about the downfall of a taxi driver who earned easy money by betting and ended up in heavy debt, having to resort to begging his wife for money. The article also includes a discussion on reality and truth, as interpretation perspectives in arts-based research.

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