ABSTRACT Policy proposals about social change and well-being shape the implementation of applied theatre projects through technologies such as evaluation practices and funding applications. Representations of projects can, in turn, effect public discourse about who participants are and why they are or are not ‘being well’. Like public policy, applied theatre for social change has to establish a problem that needs to be solved. Drawing on debates about change in applied theatre literature, we consider how funders, governments, and communities call on applied theatre practitioners to frame particular issues and/or people as problematic. We then examine discourses of well-being in Australia and New Zealand, drawing on policy documents and funding schemes to discuss the politics of change in applied theatre in each country. We consider how the field might navigate policies, technologies and public understandings of well-being, change and social good to produce work with and for participants in neoliberalised contexts.

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谁是负责的人？澳大利亚和新西兰的新自由主义话语

摘要有关社会变革和福祉的政策建议通过评估实践和资金申请等技术影响了剧院应用项目的实施。项目代表可以反过来影响公众对参与者是谁以及为什么他们“健康”或不健康的论述。像公共政策一样，社会变革的应用领域必须建立一个需要解决的问题。借助有关应用戏剧文学变化的辩论，我们考虑资助者，政府和社区如何呼吁应用戏剧从业者将特定问题和/或人们视为有问题的框架。然后，我们将参考政策文件和资助计划，探讨澳大利亚和新西兰的福祉话语，以讨论每个国家应用战区的变化政治。