Using a case study of recent applied theatre work within a secure setting in Auckland, New
Zealand, we will consider the ways in which applied theatre can function as a multi-, inter-
and trans-disciplinary form—multi-disciplinary in that it embraces the various arts disciplines
in its makings inter-disciplinary in that it works with and within other disciplinary sites and, in
doing so, is informed by and adapts to those site's discourses and practices trans-
disciplinary in the ways applied theatre practice and research blur traditional disciplinary …