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Creating verbatim theatre from oral histories / Clare Summerskill.

By: Summerskill, Clare [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Practicing oral historyPublisher: London : Routledge, 2020Description: 224 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780367181505 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Performing arts | Theater and society | Oral history | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 792'.013 Summary: Offering a roadmap for practising verbatim theatre (plays created from oral histories), this book outlines theatre processes through the lens of oral history and draws upon oral history scholarship to bring best practices from that discipline to theatre practitioners. The book opens with an overview of oral history and verbatim theatre, considering the ways in which existing oral history debates can inform verbatim theatre processes and highlights necessary ethical considerations within each field, which are especially prevalent when working with narrators from marginalised communities.
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Offering a roadmap for practising verbatim theatre (plays created from oral histories), this book outlines theatre processes through the lens of oral history and draws upon oral history scholarship to bring best practices from that discipline to theatre practitioners. The book opens with an overview of oral history and verbatim theatre, considering the ways in which existing oral history debates can inform verbatim theatre processes and highlights necessary ethical considerations within each field, which are especially prevalent when working with narrators from marginalised communities.

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