Dramaturgy of the real on the world stage [electronic resource] / edited by Carol Martin.

Theatre practitioners have been engaged with putting real life in various forms on stage since at least the beginning of the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century, theatre of the real embraces the contradictions of staging the real within the frame of the fictional while questioning the rel...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Martin, Carol J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Studies in international performance.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bodies of evidence / Carol Martin
  • Toward a poetics of theatre and public events : in the case of Stephen Lawrence / Janelle Reinelt
  • Staging terror / Wendy S. Hesford
  • Post-1990s verbatim theatre in South Africa : exploring an African concept of "truth" / Yvette Hutchison
  • Reality from the bottom up : documentary theatre in Poland / Agniewska Sowińska, translated by Benjamin Paloff
  • The scripted realities of Rimini Protokoll / Florian Malzacher
  • REwind : a cantata. Introduction to REwind : a cantata for voice, tape and testimony / Jessica Dubow ; REwind : a cantata for voice, tape and testimony / Philip Miller
  • Is.man. Honor killing and the sensation of grace / Hans Dowit ; Is.man / Adelheid Roosen
  • Three posters. Introduction / Rabih Mroué ; Three posters : a performance/video / Elias Khoury and Rabih Mroué, translated by Mona Abou Rayyan
  • The files. The magic years of youth in dreary times, or theatre of the eighth day's view of itself, again during dreary times / Joanna Ostrowska, translated by Elżbieta Janicka ; The files / Teatr Ósmego Dnia, translated by Bill Johnston
  • Don't be surprised when they come to burn your house down. Paweł Demirski : we're not hyenas : an interview / Paweł Sztarbowski, translated by Alissa Valles ; Don't be surprised when they come to burn your house down / Paweł Demirski, in collaboration with Paulina Murawska by Alissa Valles
  • Excerpts from the plays of Vivi Tellas. Kidnapping reality : an interview with Vivi Tellas / Alan Pauls, translated by Sarah J. Townsend ; Excerpts from the plays of Vivi Tellas / Vivi Tellas, translated by Sarah J. Townsend
  • Art, life & show-biz. An intimate love letter : Ain Gordon's Art, life & show-biz / Robert Vorlicky ; Art, life & show-biz / Ain Gordon.