Synopses & Reviews
Documentary theatre is a form of theatre created from the verbatim use of interviews, photographs and historical proceedings. This book brings together essays, interviews and performance texts, many published here for the first time, which describe and analyse documentary theatre around the world: both its history and its proliferation since 9/11.
Synopsis
The Dramaturgy of the Real brings together an incredible range of international theatre thinking, plays and performance texts, many published here for the first time, that ask questions about how we have come to understand reality and truth in the twenty-first century and analyze the presentation of non-fiction on the international stage.
Synopsis
PART I: ESSAYS The Dramaturgy of the Real; C.Martin Towards a Poetics of Theatre and Public Events; J.Reinelt Staging Terror; W.Hesford Post-1990s Verbatim Theatre in South Africa: Exploring an African Concept of Truth; Y.Hutchison Reality from the Bottom Up: Documentary Theatre in Poland; A.Sowinska, trans. B.Paloff The Scripted Realities of Rimini Protokoll; F.Malzacher PART II: TEXTS Rewind - A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony; J.Dubow Rewind: Cantata; P.Miller Is.Man; A.Roosen Introduction to Three Posters; R.Mrou Three Posters; E.Khoury& R.Mour The Magic Years of Youth in Dreary Times, Or Theatre of the Eighth Day's View of Itself, Again During Dreary Times; J.Ostrowska, trans. E.Janicka The Files; Teatre smego Dnia, trans. B.Johnston Pawel Demirski: We're not Hyenas - An Interview; P.Sztarbowski, trans. A.Valles Don't Be Surprised When They Burn Your House Down; P.Demirski, trans. A.Valles Kidnapping Reality: An Interview with Vivi Tellas; A.Pauls, trans. S.J.Townsend Excerpts from the Plays of Vivi Tellas; V.Tellas, trans. S.J.Townsend An Intimate Love Letter: Art, Life & Showbiz, Ain Gordon Writer/Director; B.Vorlicky Art, Life & Showbiz; A.Gordon Index
About the Author
CAROL MARTIN is Associate Professor of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Table of Contents
Contents
The Dramaturgy of the Real--C.Martin
Towards a Poetics of Theatre and Public Events--J.Reinelt
Staging Terror--W.Hesford
Post-1990s Verbatim Theatre in South Africa: Exploring an African Concept of Truth--Y.Hutchison
Reality from the Bottom Up: Documentary Theatre in Poland--A.Sowinska, trans. B.Paloff
The Scripted Realities of Rimini Protokoll--F.Malzacher
TEXTS:
Rewind - A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony--J.Dubow
Rewind: Cantata--P.Miller
Is.Man--A.Roosen
Introduction to Three Posters--R.Mrou
Three Posters--E.Khoury &--R.Mour
The Magic Years of Youth in Dreary Times, Or Theatre of the Eighth Day's View of Itself, Again During Dreary Times--J.Ostrowska, trans. E.Janicka
The Files--Teatre smego Dnia, trans. B.Johnston
Pawel Demirski: We're not Hyenas - An Interview--P.Sztarbowski, trans. A.Valles
Don't Be Surprised When They Burn Your House Down--P.Demirski, trans. A.Valles
Kidnapping Reality: An Interview with Vivi Tellas--A.Pauls, trans. S.J.Townsend
Excerpts from the Plays of Vivi Tellas--V.Tellas, trans. S.J.Townsend
An Intimate Love Letter: Art, Life &--Showbiz, Ain Gordon Writer/Director--B.Vorlicky
Art, Life &--Showbiz--A.Gordon