Amanda Stuart Fisher

Performing the testimonial

Rethinking verbatim dramaturgies

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781526145741
• ISBN-10: 152614574X
• Artikelnr.: 58592776

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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