In this Book
- Performing the testimonial: Rethinking verbatim dramaturgies
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: Manchester University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. i-vii
- Acknowledgements
- pp. ix-xi
- PART I. Verbatim theatre and its histories
- PART II. Towards testimonial theatre
- Bibliography
- pp. 186-195
Additional Information
ISBN
9781526145758
Related ISBN(s)
9781526145741
MARC Record
OCLC
1182881108
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2020-08-10
Language
English
Open Access
No