Amanda Stuart Fisher 
Performing the testimonial [EPUB ebook] 
Rethinking verbatim dramaturgies

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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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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 Weiss
2 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 witnessing
Conclusion: Performing witnessing in a post-truth era

Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor

Maggie B. Gale is Professor and Chair in Drama at The University of Manchester
Maggie B. Gale is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 216 ● ISBN 9781526145734 ● Dateigröße 0.4 MB ● Verlag Manchester University Press ● Ort Manchester ● Land GB ● Erscheinungsjahr 2020 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 7555005 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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