Theatre, Youth, and Culture: A Critical and Historical Exploration

MANON VAN DE WATER is a Professor of Theatre Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison USA, where she directs and supervises the theatre for young audiences productions. She is the author of two books, Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation, 1917-2000 (2006) and Dutch Theatre for Children: Three Plays (2008), and the editor of TYA, Culture, Society: International Essays in Theatre for Young Audiences (2012). She has been the chair of the International Theatre Audiences Research Network, the research network of Assitej, since 2008.