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 Peter Weiss,
Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator. Examining a wide range of
verbatim and testimonial plays from around the world, this book
looks beyond the discourses of the real that have tended to
dominate scholarship in this area and instead argues that this kind
of theatre engages in acts of truth telling. Through its analysis
of a range of international plays from UK, Germany, America,
Australia and South Africa, the book explores theatre’s
dramaturgical interrogation of testimony and how the act of
witnessing itself is reconfigured when relocated outside of the
psychoanalytic frame and positioned as contributing to a
decolonisation of testimony. -- .
General
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| First published: |
2020 |
| Authors: |
Amanda Stuart Fisher
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
216 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5261-7447-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5261-7447-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781526174475 |
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