Norris (drama in education and applied theatre, Brock U., Canada) merges the research and drama fields to illustrate the genre of arts-based qualitative research. Drawing from his experiences as director of Mirror Theatre, a theatre-in-education troupe in Canada, he details a playbuilding process that can be used by researchers and artists, methods used to generate data and the theatrical approaches used to disseminate research, working with the audience, and scenes by actors, researchers, and teachers from Mirror Theatre's programs and workshops who created and compiled voice collages, puppetry, narrated-mime, song, and other theatrical devices, with information on the history of each scene, its dissemination style, and its themes, such as sexuality, gender, substance abuse, and prejudice. In doing so, he questions the definition of knowledge and the concepts of analysis and data interpretation, considers the participatory aspects of research, and acknowledges that research is a constructed narrative. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)