Performing the Testimonial - Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies

Informationen zum Autor Amanda Stuart Fisher is Reader of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Klappentext Performing the testimonial offers a new critical engagement with verbatim and testimonial theatre that draws on an analysis of a number of international contemporary verbatim and testimonial plays. Moving beyond discourses of the real, the book argues that testimonial theatre engages in acts of truth telling, performing new modes of witnessing. Zusammenfassung Performing the testimonial offers a new critical engagement with verbatim and testimonial theatre that draws on an analysis of a number of international contemporary verbatim and testimonial plays. Moving beyond discourses of the real! the book argues that testimonial theatre engages in acts of truth telling! performing new modes of witnessing. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Performing the 'promise' of truthfulness: the hybrid practices of contemporary verbatim and testimonial theatre Part I: Verbatim theatre and its histories 1 Germany and the pre-histories of contemporary verbatim theatre: Piscator, Hochhuth and Weiss2 The genealogy of contemporary verbatim theatre: shifting dramaturgies and performances of truthfulness Part II: Towards testimonial theatre 3 Theatre of witnessing: Towards the decolonisation of testimonial theatre 4 Testimony as speaking out: Performing the ethico-political imperatives of witnessingConclusion: Performing witnessing in a post-truth era BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Stuart Fisher, Fisher Amanda Stuart
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781526145741
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4574-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre: Theory - Practice - P; Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Theatre: individual actors & directors, Individual actors and performers, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production