Beyond Documentary Realism: Aesthetic Transgressions in British Verbatim Theatre

By Cyrielle Garson

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 questiong the unproblematic mediation of the real in theses theatre practices.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311069669X
• ISBN13: 9783110696691
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"