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Documentary Theatre and Performance
About This Book
What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality, and defining moments of civic unrest and political change? In this short, authoritative book, Andy Lavender surveys a century of documentary theatre and performance and analyses key productions. Arranged in 3 sections that take a broadly chronological approach, the volume considers the nature of documenting, forms of intervention through theatre, the presentation of lived experience, and issues of truth, reality and representation. The book includes a variety of case studies, beginning with Piscator's In Spite of Everything! (1925) and tracing the work that followed in Europe and America, including the tribunal and testimony plays of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines the relationship of 3 key productions to moments of civic and political crisis: Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights Brooklyn and Other Identities (1992), Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (1993) and The Colour of Justice: The Stephen Lawrence Enquiry (1999). Finally, it looks at the impact of digital technologies, social media and hybrid artforms in the 21st century, to explore the engagement of documentary performance with mediations and experiences of cultural change and shifting identities across a range of case studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- Series preface
- 1 Documentary theatre and performance: Tributaries, trajectories
- 2 Documentary, multimedia and artistic prisms for social situations: 1925, 1964
- 3 Verbatim Theatre, Documentary Theatre and contests for civic change: 1992, 1993, 1999
- 4 Mediations and representations â multiple perspectives and practices: 2008 to 2023
- 5 Coda
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Imprint