Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present

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, and applying a range of critical perspectives.

Author: A. Forsyth
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/08/2009
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230336896

About the Author
MARYROSE CASEY is a Lecturer at the Centre for Theatre and Drama Studies at Monash University, Australia COLIN CHAMBERS is Reader in Drama at Kingston University, UK ATTILIO FAVORINI founded the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, USA ALAN FILEWOD is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada BEN HARKER is a Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Salford, UK NELS P. HIGHBERG is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Professional Writing at the University of Hartford, USA YVETTE HUTCHISON is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick, UK ALISON JEFFERS is a Teaching Fellow in Drama at the University of Manchester, UK CAROL MARTIN is an Associate Professor of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA DEREK PAGET is Reader in Theatre and Television, University of Reading, UK JANELLE REINELT is Professor of Theatre and Performance at theUniversity of Warwick, UK LIBERTY SMITH manages the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, the world's largest repository of information on service-learning and campus-community educational partnerships CAROLE-ANNE UPTON is Professor of Drama at the University of Ulster, UK