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Creating Verbatim Theatre from Oral Histories

Creating Verbatim Theatre from Oral Histories

Paperback

Series: Practicing Oral History

General DramaHistoriographyPlays

ISBN10: 0367181509
ISBN13: 9780367181505
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 14 2020
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Offering a roadmap for practicing verbatim theatre (plays created from oral histories), this book outlines theatre processes through the lens of oral history and draws upon oral history scholarship to bring best practices from that discipline to theatre practitioners.

This book opens with an overview of oral history and verbatim theatre, considering the ways in which existing oral history debates can inform verbatim theatre processes and highlights necessary ethical considerations within each field, which are especially prevalent when working with narrators from marginalised communities. It provides a step-by-step guide to creating plays from interviews and contains practical guidance for determining the scope of a theatre project: identifying narrators and conducting interviews, developing a script from excerpts of interview transcripts and outlining a variety of ways to create verbatim theatre productions. By bringing together this explicit discussion of oral history in relationship to theatre based on personal testimonies, the reader gains insight into each field and the close relationship between the two.

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