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Witness onstage : Documentary theatre in twenty-first-century Russia /

As the Kremlin's crackdown on freedom of expression continues to tighten, Russian playwrights and directors are using documentary theatre to create space for the public discussion of injustice in the civic sphere and its connections to the country's twentieth-century past. Witness Onstage...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Flynn, Molly Brigid (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Theatre (Manchester, England)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Called to the stand : the origins of Russian documentary theatre
  • History on trial : performing memory in twenty-first-century Russia
  • Evidentiary hearing : the pursuit of justice in Russian documentary theatre
  • Material witness : history, belief, and the theatre of enactment
  • Burden of proof : new sincerity and the performance of post-Soviet national identities
  • A special verdict : theatre and protest in Putin's Russia.