Originally published: 2009. Pbk. ed. includes updated preface, dated April 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Derek Paget. The 'broken tradition' of documentary theatre and its continued powers of endurance / Janelle Reinelt -- Mediating in the 1930s: documentary and politics in Theatre Union's Last Edition (1940) / Ben Harker -- History in the driving seat: Unity Theatre and the embrace of the 'real' / Colin Chambers -- The documentary body: theatre workshop to banner theatre / Alan Filewood -- Living simulations: the use of media in documentary in the UK, Lebanon and Israel / Carol Martin -- Looking for Esrafil: witnessing 'refugitive' bodies in I've Got Something to Show You -- / Alison Jeffers -- Remembering the past, 'Growing Ourselves a Future': community-based documentary theatre in the East Palo Alto Project / Liberty Smith -- Ngapartji Ngapartji: telling aboriginal Australian stories / Maryrose Casey -- Performing trauma: race riots and beyond in the work of Anna Deavere Smith / Alison Forsyth -- History, memory and trauma in the documentary plays of Emily Mann / Attilio Favorini -- When heroes fall: Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife and the challenge to truth / Nels P. Highberg -- The peformance of truth and justice in Northern Ireland: the case of Bloody Sunday / Carole-Anne Upton -- Half the picture: 'A Certain Frission' at the Tricycle Theatre / Chris Megson -- Verbatim theatre in South Africa: 'living history in a person's performance' / Yvette Hutchison -- The 'broken tradition' of documentary theatre and its continued powers of endurance / Derek Paget.
Summary:
Over the past two decades, theatre practioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. This has led to an astonishing range of performance styles, ways of working and modes of intervention in varied sites of theatrical production. The essays in this collection place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives that elaborate its impact and significance today-- Cover.
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