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Beyond Documentary Realism : Aesthetic Transgressions in British Verbatim Theatre / Cyrielle Garson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Drama in English Studies ; 30Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110696691
  • 9783110715866
  • 9783110715767
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.14013 23/eng/20231120
LOC classification:
  • PN2595.13.E97 G37 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- Abstract and Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Documentary Realism -- 3 New Realism(s) -- 4 Post-Realism -- 5 Conclusion -- Work Cited -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- Abstract and Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Documentary Realism -- 3 New Realism(s) -- 4 Post-Realism -- 5 Conclusion -- Work Cited -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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