Fisher Performing the testimonial

Rethinking verbatim dramaturgies
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4575-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance

Performing the testimonial offers a new critical engagement with verbatim and testimonial theatre that draws on an analysis of a number of international contemporary verbatim and testimonial plays. Moving beyond discourses of the real, the book argues that testimonial theatre engages in acts of truth telling, performing new modes of witnessing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisher, Amanda Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Performing the ‘promise’ of truthfulness: the hybrid practices of contemporary verbatim and testimonial theatre

Part I: Verbatim theatre and its histories
1 Germany and the pre-histories of contemporary verbatim theatre: Piscator, Hochhuth and Weiss
2 The genealogy of contemporary verbatim theatre: shifting dramaturgies and performances of truthfulness

Part II: Towards testimonial theatre
3 Theatre of witnessing: Towards the decolonisation of testimonial theatre
4 Testimony as speaking out: Performing the ethico-political imperatives of witnessing
Conclusion: Performing witnessing in a post-truth era

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Stuart Fisher is Reader of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama