Get Real (eBook)
XIX, 256 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-0-230-23694-3 (ISBN)
MARYROSE CASEY is a Lecturer at the Centre for Theatre and Drama Studies at Monash University, Australia COLIN CHAMBERS is Reader in Drama at Kingston University, UK ATTILIO FAVORINI founded the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, USA ALAN FILEWOD is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada BEN HARKER is a Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Salford, UK NELS P. HIGHBERG is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Professional Writing at the University of Hartford, USA YVETTE HUTCHISON is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick, UK ALISON JEFFERS is a Teaching Fellow in Drama at the University of Manchester, UK CAROL MARTIN is an Associate Professor of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA DEREK PAGET is Reader in Theatre and Television, University of Reading, UK JANELLE REINELT is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, UK LIBERTY SMITH manages the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, the world's largest repository of information on service-learning and campus-community educational partnerships CAROLE-ANNE UPTON is Professor of Drama at the University of Ulster, UK
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives.
MARYROSE CASEY is a Lecturer at the Centre for Theatre and Drama Studies at Monash University, Australia COLIN CHAMBERS is Reader in Drama at Kingston University, UK ATTILIO FAVORINI founded the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, USA ALAN FILEWOD is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada BEN HARKER is a Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Salford, UK NELS P. HIGHBERG is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Professional Writing at the University of Hartford, USA YVETTE HUTCHISON is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick, UK ALISON JEFFERS is a Teaching Fellow in Drama at the University of Manchester, UK CAROL MARTIN is an Associate Professor of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA DEREK PAGET is Reader in Theatre and Television, University of Reading, UK JANELLE REINELT is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, UK LIBERTY SMITH manages the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, the world's largest repository of information on service-learning and campus-community educational partnerships CAROLE-ANNE UPTON is Professor of Drama at the University of Ulster, UK
Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Forsyth & C.Megson The Promise of Documentary; J.Reinelt Mediating the 1930s: Documentary and Politics in Theatre Union's Last Edition (1940); B.Harker History in the Driving Seat: Unity Theatre and the Embrace of the 'Real'; C.Chambers The Documentary Body: Theatre Workshop to Banner Theatre; A.Filewod Living Simulations: The Use of Media in Documentary in the UK, Lebanon, and Israel; C.Martin Looking for Esrafil: witnessing 'refugitive' bodies in I've got something to show you ; A.Jeffers Remembering the Past, 'Growing Ourselves a Future': Community-Based Documentary Theatre in the East Palo Alto Project; L.Smith Ngapartji Ngapartji : Telling Aboriginal Australian Stories; M.Casey Performing Trauma: Race Riots and Beyond in the Work of Anna Deavere Smith; A.Forsyth History, Memory and Trauma in the Documentary Plays of Emily Mann; A.Favorini When Heroes Fall: Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife and the Challenge to Truth; N.P.Highberg The Performance of Truth and Justice in Northern Ireland: the Case of Bloody Sunday; C-A.Upton Half the Picture : 'a certain frisson' at the Tricycle Theatre; C.Megson Verbatim Theatre in South Africa: 'living history in a person's performance'; Y.Hutchison The 'Broken Tradition' of Documentary Theatre and its Continued Powers of Endurance; D.Paget Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.4.2009 |
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Reihe/Serie | Performance Interventions |
Zusatzinfo | XIX, 256 p. |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV | |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Essay • media • Theatre |
ISBN-10 | 0-230-23694-4 / 0230236944 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-23694-3 / 9780230236943 |
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