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In the Lurch - Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation (Hardcover)
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In the Lurch - Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation (Hardcover)
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Some of theater's most powerful works in the past thirty years fall
into the category of "verbatim theater," socially engaged
performances whose texts rely on word-for-word testimony.
Performances such as Fires in the Mirror, The Laramie Project, and
The Vagina Monologues have at their best demonstrated how to hold
hard conversations about explosive subjects in a liberal democracy.
But in this moment of what author Ryan Claycomb terms the
"rightward lurch" of western democracies, does this idealized space
of democratic deliberation remain effective? In the Lurch asks that
question in a pointed and self-reflexive way, tracing the history
of this branch of documentary theater with particular attention to
the political outcomes and stances these performances seem to seek.
But this is not just a disinterested history--Claycomb reflects on
his own participation in that political fantasy, including earlier
scholarly writing that articulated with breathless hopefulness the
potential of verbatim theater, and on his own theatrical
attendance, imbued with a belief that witnessing this idealized
public sphere was a substitute for actual public participation. In
the Lurch also recounts the bumpy path towards its completion, two
years marked by presidential impeachments, an insurrection, a
national reckoning with racism, and a global pandemic. At the heart
of the book is a central question: is verbatim theater any longer
an effective cultural response to what can look like the possible
end of democracy?
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