Performing the testimonial : Rethinking verbatim dramaturgies /

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Providing one of the first critically sustained engagements with the new forms of verbatim and testimonial theatre that emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this book examines what distinguishes verbatim theatre from the more established documentary theatre traditions developed initially by Pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fisher, Amanda Stuart (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
Realism in literature.
Experimental theater > History and criticism.
Historical drama > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : performing the 'promise' of truthfulness : the hybrid practices of contemporary verbatim and testimonial theatre
  • Germany and the pre-histories of contemporary verbatim theatre : Piscator, Hochhuth and Weiss
  • The genealogy of contemporary verbatim theatre : shifting dramaturgies and performances of truthfulness
  • Theatre of witnessing : towards the decolonisation of testimonial theatre
  • Testimony as speaking out : performing the ethico-political imperatives of witnessing
  • Conclusion : performing witnessing in a post-truth era.

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