Author : Cyrielle Garson
Release : 2021-02-22
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 767/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beyond Documentary Realism by : Cyrielle Garson
Download or read book Beyond Documentary Realism written by Cyrielle Garson. This book was released on 2021-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verbatim theatre, a type of performance based on actual words spoken by ''real people'', has been at the heart of a remarkable and unexpected renaissance of the genre in Great Britain since the mid-nineties. The central aim of the book is to critically explore and account for the relationship between contemporary British verbatim theatre and realism whilst questioning the much-debated mediation of the real in theses theatre practices.