Verbatim (Staging Memory and Community)

Title: Verbatim (Staging Memory and Community)
Author: Brown, Paul
Price: $34.99

Verbatim and documentary theatre practices, project and production history, commentary and analysis, exercises, workshops, reviews and audience reactions, as well as interviews with the creators of the plays The Laramie Project; Aftershocks; Parramatta Girls; Run Rabbit Run, Minefields and Miniskirts.

Each play is explored in its social context, and in the context of the history and range of documentary and real life forms of contemporary drama.

Intended for teachers and students studying and making verbatim theatre at senior high school level and also valuable for theatre practitioners intrigued by verbatim and wanting to devise new works.

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Verbatim and Documentary Theatre in Australia has been written specifically for the NSW HSC topic on Verbatim Theatre. Focusing on the plays set for the topicThe Laramie Project; Aftershocks; Parramatta Girls; Run Rabbit Run, Minefields and Miniskirts the book provides project and production history, commentary and analysis, reviews and audience reactions, as well as interviews with the creators of the plays: Each play is explored in its social context, and in the context of the history and range of documentary and real life forms of contemporary drama.

Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date: 01/11/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780868198798
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping