In the lurch verbatim theater and the crisis of democratic deliberation

Some of theater's most powerful works in the past thirty years fall into the category of "verbatim theater," socially engaged performances whose texts rely on word-for-word testimony. Performances such as Fires in the Mirror, The Laramie Project, and The Vagina Monologues have at thei...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Claycomb, Ryan, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press 2023.
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009707530406719
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: In the Lurch
  • One: Democratic Deliberation and the Theatricalized Public Sphere
  • Two: Debating in Utopia
  • Three: Feeling Together
  • Four: The Opposite of Empathy is Suspicion
  • Coda: Nostalgia
  • or, the Pastness of the Present
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.