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