Performing the Testimonial

Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies

Amanda Stuart Fisher

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Manchester University Press
26 September 2023

Theatre: individual actors & directors; Theatre direction & production

Series: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance

Providing one of the first critically sustained engagements with the new forms of verbatim and testimonial theatre that emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this book examines what distinguishes verbatim theatre from the more established documentary theatre traditions developed initially by Peter Weiss, Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator.

Examining a wide range of verbatim and testimonial plays from around the world, this book 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 of a range of international plays from UK, Germany, America, Australia and South Africa, 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.

By: Amanda Stuart Fisher
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 254g
ISBN: 9781526174475
ISBN 10: 1526174472
Series: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 26 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 genealogy 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 witnessing in a post-truth era Bibliography Index -- .

Amanda Stuart Fisher is Reader of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama -- .

Reviews for Performing the Testimonial: Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies

‘This book makes important contributions in developing understandings about the dramaturgy of truth claims and testimonial theatre.’ Rand Hazou, Research in Drama Education ‘Performing the testimonial is not only an innovative work of performance philosophy regarding truthfulness in verbatim and testimonial theatre, it is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary discussions of epistemic and testimonial injustice as such.’ Maurice Hamington, Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University -- .