This paper will look at practice-as-research as a potentially decolonising, self-determining, anti- positivist, collective and alternative knowledge producing methodology through the creative arts, particularly theatre. It will look at how the form may include multiple knowledge’s, challenge modernity, build and theorise from lived experiences and in so doing challenge the expectation, power-dynamics and ethics of staging of refugee and asylum seeker narratives on stage.

This work-in-progress paper will share the initial finding of my current PhD research at the Centre for Cultural Partnerships, VCA.