Contact! Unload: military veterans, trauma, and research-based theatre

Introduction / Graham W. Lea and George Belliveau

Part 1: Researching, Developing, and Creating. Staging War: Historical Contexts of Theatre and Social Health Initiatives with Veterans / Michael Balfour

Contact!Unload: The Cauldron / Chuck MacKinnon

Facilitating Therapeutic Change through Theatre Performance / Alistair G. Gordon, Marv Westwood, and Carson A. Kivari

A Soldier's Tale: "Nobody Understood What I'd Done" / Britney Dennison

Listening through Stories: Insights into Writing Contact!Unload / Graham W. Lea

Suicides to Sydney / Foster Eastman

Coming Home / Tim Laidler

Reconnaissance and Reclamation: Learning to Talk about the War / Anna Keefe

Impact on Veteran Performers / George Belliveau, Blair McLean, and Christopher Cook

Holding on to the Script / Phillip Lopresti

Contact!Unload: Annotated Playscript

Part 2: Performing, Witnessing, and Evaluating. Finding My Truth / Timothy Garthside

Unpacking Contact!Unload Using Relational-Cultural Theory / Candace Marshall with Graham W. Lea

Contact!Unload Revisited: Degrees of Separation / Lynn Fels

Remembering / Carl Leggo

A Poet(h)ic Reflection on Contact!Unload: Voices of Women through War / Heather Duff

Soldiers Lead the Way in the Fight for Mental Health among Men / John S. Ogrodniczuk

Audience Experience of Vicarious Witnessing in Performing War / Marion Porath, Marla Buchanan, and Elizabeth Banister

Understanding the Impacts of Contact!Unload for Audiences / Jennica Nichols, Susan M. Cox, and George Belliveau

Vulnerable Strength Seen / JS Valdez and Jennica Nichols

Conclusion / George Belliveau and Graham W. Lea.