Introduction / Graham W. Lea and George Belliveau
Part 1: Researching, Developing, and Creating
1 Staging War: Historical Contexts of Theatre and Social Health Initiatives with Veterans / Michael Balfour
2 Contact!Unload: The Cauldron / Chuck MacKinnon
3 Facilitating Therapeutic Change through Theatre Performance / Alistair G. Gordon, Marv Westwood, and Carson A. Kivari
4 A Soldier’s Tale: “Nobody Understood What I’d Done” / Britney Dennison
5 Listening through Stories: Insights into Writing Contact!Unload / Graham W. Lea
6 Suicides to Sydney / Foster Eastman
7 Coming Home / Tim Laidler
8 Reconnaissance and Reclamation: Learning to Talk about the War / Anna Keefe
9 Impact on Veteran Performers / George Belliveau, Blair McLean, and Christopher Cook
10 Holding on to the Script / Phillip Lopresti
Contact!Unload: Annotated Playscript
Part 2: Performing, Witnessing, and Evaluating
11 Finding My Truth / Timothy Garthside
12 Unpacking Contact!Unload Using Relational-Cultural Theory / Candace Marshall with Graham W. Lea
13 Contact!Unload Revisited: Degrees of Separation / Lynn Fels
14 Remembering / Carl Leggo
15 A Poet(h)ic Reflection on Contact!Unload: Voices of Women Through War
/ Heather Duff
16 Soldiers Lead the Way in the Fight for Mental Health among Men / John S. Ogrodniczuk
17 Audience Experience of Vicarious Witnessing in Performing War / Marion Porath, Marla Buchanan, and Elizabeth Banister
18 Understanding the Impacts of Contact!Unload on Audiences / Jennica Nichols, Susan M. Cox, and George Belliveau
19 Vulnerable Strength Seen / JS Valdez and Jennica Nichols
Conclusion / George Belliveau and Graham W. Lea
Contributors; Index