Performing the testimonial : rethinking verbatim dramaturgies / Amanda Stuart Fisher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Amanda Stuart, author.

Series:

Theatre (Manchester, England)

Theatre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--History.

Theater.

Historical drama--History and criticism.

Historical drama.

Reportage literature--History and criticism.

Reportage literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Examining a wide range of verbatim and testimonial plays from around the world, Fisher looks beyond the discourses of the real that have tended to dominate scholarship in this area and instead argues that this kind of theatre engages in acts of truth telling. Through its analysis, the book explores theatre's dramaturgical interrogation of testimony and how the act of witnessing itself is reconfigured when relocated outside of the psychoanalytic frame and positioned as contributing to a decolonisation of testimony.

Contents:

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 genaology 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 withnessing in a post-truth era.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 16, 2026).

Other Format:

Painettu:

ISBN:

9781526145734

1526145731

9781526158307

1526158302

9781526145758

1526145758

OCLC:

1235840441