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. -- .
By:
Amanda Stuart Fisher Imprint: Manchester University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 13mm
ISBN:9781526145741 ISBN 10: 152614574X Series:Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance Pages: 216 Publication Date:11 August 2020 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
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 -- .
Amanda Stuart Fisher is Reader of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama