Performing the testimonial : rethinking verbatim dramaturgies /

• Main Author: Fisher, Amanda Stuart (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Thesis Book
• Language: English
• Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
• Edition: First published 2020
• Series: Theatre : theory practice performance
• Subjects: Θέατρο > Ιστορία; Ιστορικό δράμα > Ιστορία και κριτική.; Δημοσιογραφία και λογοτεχνία

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Verbatim theatre and its histories : Germany and the pre-histories of contemporary verbatim theatre: Piscator, Hochhuth and Weiss
• The genaology of contemporary verbatim theatre: shifting dramaturgies and performances of truthfulness
• Part II. Towards testimonial theatre: Theatre of witnessing: towards the decolonisation of testimonial theatre
• Testimony as speaking out: performing the ethico-political imperatives of witnessing
• Conclusion: performing withnessing in a post-truth era.