‘I Feel Like a Giant, Like a Star, a Proper Actor’ – Reflections on a Service User Led Evaluation of a Drama Project Using Participatory Visual Research Methods

This article describes the processes of supporting ‘Full Circle from ARC, Stockton’, a group of nine men and women with learning disabilities, to develop skills in using visual research methods to evaluate their own drama project that grew from their ambition to escape the boundaries of conventional day care services and have a go at being ‘real actors’. With the help of support workers, members of Full Circle worked with a drama practitioner to...