Performing the testimonial offers a new critical engagement with verbatim and testimonial theatre that draws on an analysis of a number of international contemporary verbatim and testimonial plays. Moving beyond discourses of the real, the book argues that testimonial theatre engages in acts of truth telling, performing new modes of witnessing. -- .
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Author(s): Amanda Stuart Fisher
Number of pages: 216
Collection: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance