Lavender Andy - Documentary Theatre And Performance - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality and defining moments of civic unrest and political change? In this short authoritative book Andy Lavender surveys a century of documentary theatre and performance and analyses key productions. Arranged in 3 sections that take a broadly chronological approach the volume considers the nature of documenting forms of intervention through theatre the presentation of lived experience and issues of truth reality and representation. The book includes a variety of case studies beginning with Piscator's In Spite of Everything! (1925) and tracing the work that followed in Europe and America including the tribunal and testimony plays of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines the relationship of 3 key productions to moments of civic and political crisis: Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights Brooklyn and Other Identities (1992) Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (1993) and The Colour of Justice: The Stephen Lawrence Enquiry (1999). Finally it looks at the impact of digital technologies social media and hybrid artforms in the 21st century to explore the engagement of documentary performance with mediations and experiences of cultural change and shifting identities across a range of case studies.
Title: Documentary Theatre And Performance
Author(s): Lavender Andy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350137134
Pages: 192 Pages, 9 Bw Illus
Publication Date: 8/22/2024
Series: Forms of Drama
(Editor: Shepherd, Mr Simon)
Category: Social & Cultural History