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Fiction's Truth: The Consequence of Representing Human Suffering, Distress, and Violence in Performance book cover

1st Edition

Fiction's Truth The Consequence of Representing Human Suffering, Distress, and Violence in Performance

By Danielle Szlawieniec-Haw Copyright 2020
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge
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Fiction’s Truth explores professional actors’ lived experiences of representing human suffering, distress, and violence. The book analyses the struggles, issues, and transformations professional actors face when dealing with these portrayals of human life; the personal and interpersonal consequences – both taxing and rewarding – they experience while undertaking these representations; and... Read more

Author's Note

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction  

2. The Study 

3. Setting the Stage - and Screen 

4. Intertwined Realities 

5. Intense Emotions and Lingerings 

6. Reflections on Intense Emotions and Lingerings 

7. Personal, Interpersonal, and Structural Forms of Attention and Care 

8. Moving Forward 

9. Breaking the Four Walls 

10. In the End

Index

Biography

Danielle I. Szlawieniec-Haw is an award-winning actor, screenwriter, producer, and acting consultant. She has appeared on stage and on-screen, written feature films - as well as hours of television for networks such as A & E, W, CBC. and Discovery ID - and developed projects for production companies throughout Canada and the US. She holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from York University.

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