Putting the Document into Documentary: An Unwelcome Corrective?

Author:

Bottoms Stephen1

Affiliation:

1. Stephen Bottoms is the Wole Soyinka Chair of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds, England. He is the author of Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement (University of Michigan Press, 2004), Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and The Theatre of Sam Shepard (Cambridge University Press, 1998). He edited The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and his articles have appeared in...

Abstract

“Verbatim drama,” the current trend in British documentary theatre, capitalizes on the presumed authenticity of the voices represented and on the “unmediated” theatricalization of the truths they ostensibly reveal. The works of Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project present an alternative, appropriating avantgarde theatre techniques and acknowledging the presence of the artist in shaping the representation of the realities depicted.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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