<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Acknowledgements Introduction Dramatic Playing as a Tactic for the Confrontation of the Mask of Aging Performing the Scroll of Esther: Articulating Power through Symbolic Inversion The Three Elderly Musketeers and their Invention of Play Playing the World-Upside-Down as Part of the Therapeutic Policy of a Children's Medical Center 'Theatre of the People': Rhetoric versus an Apparatus for Supervision and Control in the Mizrahi Co-Community Battered Women on the Stage: From Spoken Objects to Speaking Subjects Between Home and Homeland: Ethiopian Youth Making Do with Theatre Undoing the Conflict: Israeli Jews and Palestinians Co-Creating a Theatrical Event The National Festival of the Co-Communities: The Meta-Theatrical Event Bibliography Index<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>DR SHULMITH LEV-ALADGEM is Senior Lecturer in the Theatre Department at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. She is a researcher, practitioner and actress whose main interests include play theory, performance studies and cultural studies and their relation to community theatre, educational drama and feminist theatre. She has published in a range of journals, including Theatre Research International and New Theatre Quarterly.