This volume is a case study of a successful attempt to link social-science research to drama. In the relatively unmapped territory of performance ethnography, this story serves as a guidepost to others following down that path. The authors detail the steps in the experimental process, from field notes to performance, and the impact on audiences and participants. Standing Ovation is also a behind-the-scenes look at the messy , sometimes chaotic process of creation, the primary participants of which are women living with metastatic breast cancer. Focus-group transcripts become scripts and scripts become drama. Included with the book is an 80-minute VHS videotape that contains performances of Handle with Care? and No Big Deal? , the plays that resulted from the processes described in the book. CONAnd now introducing; social science meets performance; the meaning of metastatic ; they had to cry; scripting; stepping into the spotlight; we behaved badly; blocking notes; travelling, unravelling; final curtain.