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Author:   A. Forsyth ,  C. Megson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.495kg
ISBN:  

9780230221154

ISBN 10:   0230221157
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   08 April 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Forsyth &  C.Megson The Promise of Documentary;  J.Reinelt Mediating the 1930s: Documentary and Politics in Theatre Union's Last Edition (1940); B.Harker History in the Driving Seat: Unity Theatre and the Embrace of the 'Real';  C.Chambers The Documentary Body: Theatre Workshop to Banner Theatre;  A.Filewod Living Simulations: The Use of Media in Documentary in the UK, Lebanon, and Israel;  C.Martin Looking for Esrafil: witnessing 'refugitive' bodies in I've got something to show you ; A.Jeffers Remembering the Past, 'Growing Ourselves a Future': Community-Based Documentary Theatre in the East Palo Alto Project; L.Smith Ngapartji Ngapartji : Telling Aboriginal Australian Stories; M.Casey Performing Trauma: Race Riots and Beyond in the Work of Anna Deavere Smith; A.Forsyth History, Memory and Trauma in the Documentary Plays of Emily Mann; A.Favorini When Heroes Fall: Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife and the Challenge to Truth; N.P.Highberg The Performance of Truth and Justice in Northern Ireland: the Case of Bloody Sunday; C-A.Upton Half the Picture : 'a certain frisson' at the Tricycle Theatre;  C.Megson Verbatim Theatre in South Africa: 'living history in a person's performance';  Y.Hutchison The 'Broken Tradition' of Documentary Theatre and its Continued Powers of Endurance; D.Paget Index

Reviews

'This is a timely book. Following hard on the heels of the 2006 TDR special issue on documentary theatre, and at a time when public and critical interest in documentary theatre has - in the UK at least - never been higher, the editors have produced a collection of essays that sets out (in their words) 'to re-evaluate the historical traditions' of the genre, and 'to examine the remarkable mobilization and proliferation of documentary forms across Western theatre cultures in the past two decades'. In this the book, with very few reservations, succeeds...The standard of writing is uniformly high.' - Anthony Jackson, New Theatre Quarterly

Author Information

MARYROSE CASEY is a Lecturer at the Centre for Theatre and Drama Studies at Monash University, Australia COLIN CHAMBERS is Reader in Drama at Kingston University, UK ATTILIO FAVORINI founded the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, USA ALAN FILEWOD is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada BEN HARKER is a Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Salford, UK NELS P. HIGHBERG is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Professional Writing at the University of Hartford, USA YVETTE HUTCHISON is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick, UK ALISON JEFFERS is a Teaching Fellow in Drama at the University of Manchester, UK CAROL MARTIN is an Associate Professor of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA DEREK PAGET is Reader in Theatre and Television, University of Reading, UK JANELLE REINELT is Professor of Theatre and Performance at theUniversity of Warwick, UK LIBERTY SMITH manages the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, the world's largest repository of information on service-learning and campus-community educational partnerships CAROLE-ANNE UPTON is Professor of Drama at the University of Ulster, UK

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