Performing the testimonial: Rethinking verbatim dramaturgies
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- ASTU3
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- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.7765/9781526145758
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9781526145758
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- ‘Performing the testimonial’ is a 78,250-word longer-form output researched over 6 years, drawing on extended primary sources to reconfigure the histories of verbatim theatre. Beginning with the tribunal plays of the 1960s, it traces the figure of the witness to the emergence of testimonial theatre — a contemporary form possessing international resonance that speaks directly to decolonising imperatives. Articulating critical insights into complex, multi-faceted modes of witnessing and testimony, and incorporating wide-ranging international perspectives including non-European contexts, the book investigates what is at stake in the distinction between testimonial and verbatim, offering new perspectives on performed witnessing in contemporary theatre.
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- Non-English
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