Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives.

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Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 The Promise of Documentary
2 Mediating the 1930s: Documentary and Politics in Theatre Union’s Last Edition (1940)
3 History in the Driving Seat: Unity Theatre and the Embrace of the ‘Real’
4 The Documentary Body: Theatre Workshop to Banner Theatre
5 Living Simulations: The Use of Media in Documentary in the UK, Lebanon and Israel
6 Looking for Esrafil: Witnessing ‘Refugitive’ Bodies in I’ve got something to show you
7 Remembering the Past, ‘Growing Ourselves a Future’: Community-Based Documentary Theatre in the East Palo Alto Project
8 Ngapartji Ngapartji: Telling Aboriginal Australian Stories
9 Performing Trauma: Race Riots and Beyond in the Work of Anna Deavere Smith
10 History, Memory and Trauma in the Documentary Plays of Emily Mann
11 When Heroes Fall: Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife and the Challenge to Truth
12 The Performance of Truth and Justice in Northern Ireland: The Case of Bloody Sunday
13 Half the Picture: ‘A Certain Frisson’ at the Tricycle Theatre
14 Verbatim Theatre in South Africa: ‘Living History in a Person’s Performance’
15 The ‘Broken Tradition’ of Documentary Theatre and Its Continued Powers of Endurance
Bibliography
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