Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present
by Forsyth, Alison; Megson, ChrisFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-05-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives.
Author Biography
ALISON FORSYTH is Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK, and researches into adaptations and staging the real. Her publications include Gadamer, History and the Classics: Fugard, Marowitz, Berkoff and Harrison Rewrite the Theatre (2002). Her current research projects are an anthology of adaptations and The Trauma of Articulation: Arthur Miller's Holocaust Plays.
CHRIS MEGSON is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK. He is currently writing a book on the playwright Sarah Kane and has published a range of essays on post-war British playwriting and performance.
CHRIS MEGSON is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK. He is currently writing a book on the playwright Sarah Kane and has published a range of essays on post-war British playwriting and performance.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Notes on Contributors | p. x |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Promise of Documentary | p. 6 |
| Mediating the 1930s: Documentary and Politics in Theatre Union's Last Edition (1940) | p. 24 |
| History in the Driving Seat: Unity Theatre and the Embrace of the 'Real' | p. 38 |
| The Documentary Body: Theatre Workshop to Banner Theatre | p. 55 |
| Living Simulations: The Use of Media in Documentary in the UK, Lebanon and Israel | p. 74 |
| Looking for Esrafil: Witnessing 'Refugitive' Bodies in I've got something to show you | p. 91 |
| Remembering the Past, 'Growing Ourselves a Future': Community-Based Documentary Theatre in the East Palo Alto Project | p. 107 |
| Ngapartji Ngapartiji: Telling Aboriginal Australian Stories | p. 122 |
| Performing Trauma: Race Riots and Beyond in the Work of Anna Deavere Smith | p. 140 |
| History, Memory and Trauma in the Documentary Plays of Emily Mann | p. 151 |
| When Heroes Fall: Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife and the Challenge to Truth | p. 167 |
| The Performance of Truth and Justice in Northern Ireland: The Case of Bloody Sunday | p. 179 |
| Half the Picture: 'A Certain Frisson' at the Tricycle Theatre | p. 195 |
| Verbatim Theatre in South Africa: 'Living History in a Person's Performance' | p. 209 |
| The 'Broken Tradition' of Documentary Theatre and Its Continued Powers of Endurance | p. 224 |
| Bibliography | p. 239 |
| Index | p. 249 |
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