Get real [electronic resource] : documentary theatre past and present / edited by Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson.
Over 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 astonishing range of performance styles, ways of working and modes of intervention in varied sites of theatrical produ...
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Series: | Performance interventions.
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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. 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 ₁verbatim₂ 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 theatre₂s 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230236943 0230236944 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |