Urban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and its social limits and possibilities. At the heart of this text lies the question of how theatre can illuminate the urban and how theatre is illuminated by the urban.

Introduction: Drama and theatre in urban contexts 1. 'I made myself': playmaking as a pedagogy of change with urban youth 2. Preventing violent extremism and 'Not in My Name': theatrical representation, artistic responsibility and shared vulnerability 3. Meddling with 'drama class', muddling 'urban': imagining aspects of the urban feminine self through an experimental theatre process with youth 4. 'Is that what you really want?': a case study of intracultural ensemble-building within the paradoxes of 'urbanicity' 5. The stage and the city: narrative, identity and place in Dermot Bolger's The Ballymun Trilogy (2004-2008) 6. Back on whose track? Reframing ideologies of inclusion and misrecognition in a participatory theatre project with young people in London 7. Mythogeography works: performing multiplicity on Queen Street 8. Situation Venice: towards a performative 'ex-planation' of a city Appendix I: Abstracts in Spanish and French