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|aGet real|h[electronic resource] :|bdocumentary theatre past and present /|cedited by Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson.
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|aIntroduction / A.Forsyth & C.Megson -- The Promise of Documentary / J.Reinelt -- Mediating the 1930s: Documentary and Politics in Theatre Union's Last Edition (1940) / B.Harker -- History in the Driving Seat: Unity Theatre and the Embrace of the 'Real' / C.Chambers -- The Documentary Body: Theatre Workshop to Banner Theatre / A.Filewod -- Living Simulations: The Use of Media in Documentary in the UK, Lebanon, and Israel/ C.Martin -- Looking for Esrafil: witnessing 'refugitive' bodies in I've got something to show you / A.Jeffers -- Remembering the Past, 'Growing Ourselves a Future': Community-Based Documentary Theatre in the East Palo Alto Project / L.Smith -- Ngapartji Ngapartji: Telling Aboriginal Australian Stories / M.Casey -- Performing Trauma: Race Riots and Beyond in the Workof Anna Deavere Smith / A.Forsyth -- History, Memory and Trauma in the Documentary Plays of Emily Mann / A.Favorini -- When Heroes Fall: Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife and the Challenge to Truth /N.P.Highberg -- The Performance of Truth and Justice in Northern Ireland: the Case of Bloody Sunday / C-A.Upton -- Half the Picture: 'a certain frisson' at the Tricycle Theatre / C.Megson -- Verbatim Theatre in South Africa: "living history in a person's performance" / Y.Hutchison -- The 'Broken Tradition' of Documentary Theatre and its Continued Powers of Endurance / D.Paget.
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|aOver the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. This has led to an astonishingrange of performance styles, ways of working and modes of intervention in varied sites of theatrical production. The essays in this collection place this workin context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and b1 sverbatim b2 s theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives that elaborate its impact and significance today. Focusing on examples from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa and the Middle East, this collection raises provocative questions about documentary theatre b2 ss relationship to new technology, media, the body, the archive, memory, autobiography, and national identity. It examines the viability and resonance of documentary theatre in an era of infotainment,globalisation and postmodernity, and explores its past and potential contribution within the public sphere.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2009.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on July 24, 2009).|nAccess may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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