This book proposes a new way to consider theatre and performance that claims a special relationship to reality, truth and authenticity. It documents innovations in devising and staging theatre and performance that takes reality as its subject, cultural shifts that have generated theatre of the real, some of its problems and some possibilities.

Autorentext
CAROL MARTIN is Professor of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA. Recent books include Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage. Martin is the General Editor of 'In Performance', a book series devoted to post 9/11 performance texts and plays published by Seagull Books and distributed by The University of Chicago Press. Her essays have appeared in anthologies and academic journals and have been translated into Turkish, French, Polish, Chinese, Romanian and Japanese.

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List of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgements Theatre of the Real: An Overview The Theatricalization of Public and Private Life After the Fact: Technology, Memory, Experience Apart From the Document: Representation of Jews and Jewishness Occupying Public Space Seems Like I Can See Him Sometimes: Theatre of Revelation Works Cited Index