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Documentary and Verbatim Theatre: Tracing Methodologies and Practitioners book cover

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Documentary and Verbatim Theatre Tracing Methodologies and Practitioners

By Stuart Young Copyright 2026
242 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Documentary and Verbatim Theatre surveys the emergence and rise of work based on real life in contemporary theatre, exploring the artists, methodologies, plays, and central themes that have characterised its enduring popularity.   After charting the recent history of modern documentary theatre in the twentieth century and the debates that have surrounded it in the past thirty years,... Read more

1. Introduction                   

2. Ethical Issues in Creating Documentary and Verbatim Theatre

3. Progenitors and Exponents of Documentary Theatre in the Twentieth Century

4. Verbatim Virtuoso: Anna Deavere Smith                

5. Out of Joint Verbatim: The Documentary Theatre of Max Stafford-Clark, Robin Soans, and David Hare

6. The Interdisciplinary Investigative Theatre of The Civilians

7. The Tricycle’s Tribunal Plays

8. Headphone Verbatim and Extreme Verbatim

9. Verbatim Theatre Meets Dance: DV8 Physical Theatre

10. Afterword

Biography

Stuart Young is Emeritus Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He has published on various aspects of Theatre of the Real, and his Performance-as-Research projects on verbatim theatre have resulted in the creation of several works.

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