Performing the Testimonial: Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies - Couverture souple

Fisher, Amanda Stuart

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526174472 ISBN 13 : 9781526174475

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Amanda Stuart Fisher is Reader of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526174472
• ISBN 13: 9781526174475
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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