Get real : documentary theatre past and present /
Get real : documentary theatre past and present /
edited by Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson.
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- xii, 256 p.
- Performance interventions .
- Performance interventions. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780230236943 (ebook)
Theater and society.
Theater--Political aspects.
Theater--Anthropological aspects.
Political plays--History and criticism.
Reality in literature.
Performing Arts.
Theatre studies
Dance
Films, cinema
Biography, literature & literary studies
Social & cultural history
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Performing arts
Film history, theory & criticism
Literature: history & criticism
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780230236943 (ebook)
Theater and society.
Theater--Political aspects.
Theater--Anthropological aspects.
Political plays--History and criticism.
Reality in literature.
Performing Arts.
Theatre studies
Dance
Films, cinema
Biography, literature & literary studies
Social & cultural history
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Performing arts
Film history, theory & criticism
Literature: history & criticism