Get real : documentary theatre past and present /: documentary theatre past and present. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson.
• Other Names: Forsyth, Alison, 1961-; Megson, Christopher; Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• Contents: Introduction / A. Forsyth & C. Megson -- The Promise of Documentary / J. Reinelt -- Mediating the 1930s: Documentary and Politics in Theatre Union's Last Edition (1940) / B. Harker -- History in the Driving Seat: Unity Theatre and the Embrace of the 'Real' / C. Chambers -- The Documentary Body: Theatre Workshop to Banner Theatre / A. Filewod -- Living Simulations: The Use of Media in Documentary in the UK, Lebanon, and Israel / C. Martin -- Looking for Esrafil: witnessing 'refugitive' bodies in I've got something to show you / A. Jeffers -- Remembering the Past, 'Growing Ourselves a Future': Community-Based Documentary Theatre in the East Palo Alto Project / L. Smith -- Ngapartji Ngapartji: Telling Aboriginal Australian Stories / M. Casey -- Performing Trauma: Race Riots and Beyond in the Work of Anna Deavere Smith / A. Forsyth -- History, Memory and Trauma in the Documentary Plays of Emily Mann / A. Favorini -- When Heroes Fall: Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife and the Challenge to Truth / N.P. Highberg -- The Performance of Truth and Justice in Northern Ireland: the Case of Bloody Sunday / C-A. Upton -- Half the Picture: 'a certain frisson' at the Tricycle Theatre / C. Megson -- Verbatim Theatre in South Africa: "living history in a person's performance" / Y. Hutchison -- The 'Broken Tradition' of Documentary Theatre and its Continued Powers of Endurance / D. Paget.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages)
• Subjects: 792.013; Performing arts; Theater and society; Theater -- Political aspects; Theater -- Anthropological aspects; Political plays -- History and criticism; Reality in literature; PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism; Political plays; Reality in literature; Theater and society; Theater -- Anthropological aspects; Theater -- Political aspects; Dokumentartheater; Theater; Social history; Literature; Theater-History; Motion pictures-History; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780230236943; 0230236944
• Related ISBNs: 9780230221154; 0230221157
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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