Documentary and Verbatim Theatre

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.

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.

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