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Verbatim theatre is a form of documentary theatre in which plays are constructed from the precise words spoken by people interviewed about a particular event or topic.
The playwright interviews people that are connected to the topic that the play is focused on and uses their testimony to construct the piece. In this way they seek to achieve a degree of authority akin to that represented by the news. Such plays may be focused on politics, disasters or even sporting events.
A verbatim style of theatre uses the real words from interviewees to construct the play. Campion Decent, Australian playwright and author of the verbatim theatre play Embers, said it is “not written in a traditional sense… but is... conceived, collected and collated”. it is a creative type of drama to help tell the story of what actually happened.
American actress/playwright Anna Deavere Smith has been described as a pioneer of verbatim theatre due to two of her one-woman plays in the early 1990s: Fires in the Mirror (1992), about the 1991 Crown Heights riot, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (1994), about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. For both plays, she conducted interviews with numerous people connected to the events, then fashioned the plays out of the interview transcripts.
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Verbatim theatre is a type of theatre-making where the text is generated from interviews with 'real life' people. There are various methods of using and practicing this form of theatre, explored through this film which features verbatim practitioners Alecky Blythe (London Road), Nadia Fall (Home), David Hare (Stuff Happens) and Nicolas Kent (The Colour of Justice). Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/nationaltheatre
Verbatim theatre is a type of theatre-making where the text is generated from interviews with 'real life' people. In this second film, Robin Belfield gives advice on how to create your own piece of verbatim theatre featuring footage from a workshop he conducted at the National Theatre in the summer of 2013. Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nationaltheatre SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/nationaltheatre
This was the second of the two pieces devised by my A2 Drama students on the Hillsborough disaster, and focuses on the impact of the politics of the situation on the lives of the families involved. This is a performance that combines verbatim theatre with elements of 'faction' and features outstanding performances by Claire Mengham, Liam Fernandez, Harry Househam and Rachel Mengham. The show also features the creative lighting and video/audio modelling by Joseph Lott. As a result of the two performances of this show the students raised £250.00 in a collection from the audience after each show which is to be donated to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign.
St. Cloud State University's department of Theatre and Film Studies presented Talking to Terrorists by Robin Soans. The show ran April 17th - 21st. Filmed and edited by Andrew Nordby, AndrewNordby@gmail.com
Verbatim theatre is a type of theatre-making where the text is generated from interviews with 'real life' people, and poses many ethical questions around the representation of these people in a controlled environment. In this film, key practitioners Alecky Blythe (London Road), Nadia Fall (Home), David Hare (Stuff Happens) and Nicolas Kent (The Colour of Justice) discuss their approach to these questions during their previous work. Discover more about the art of making theatre with the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover Bookshop: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nationaltheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london iTunes: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/itunes TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/nati...
Senior Drama students have written and performed their own Verbatim Theatre piece based on the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.
In this scene from To Be Straight With You, the main performer plays a man who is joined by supporters protesting against gay adoption outside the Houses of Parliament. To find out more about this scene and other DV8 work, sign up to our Media Portal at https://www.dv8.co.uk/media-portal. There is a work pack about "To Be Straight With You" available at: https://www.dv8.co.uk/students. 'To Be Straight With You' premiered on the 6th December 2007 at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany, and was co-produced by spielzeit'europa/Berliner Festspiele, National Theatre, London, Maison des Arts de Creteil and Festival D'Automne, Paris. To keep up to date with DV8, including tour dates and upcoming work, follow the company on: - Twitter: http://bit.ly/DV8Twitter - Facebook: http:...
Minotaur Theatre Company's Shorts Festival 2013 Directed by Harry Smith and Sam Hind Death Row blends verbatim and physical theatre for an insight into the dreams, fears and regrets of seven inmates facing the death penalty in America. Joseph Garcia - Matt Preece Fredrick Baer - Sam King Benjamin Ritchie - Joe Jones James Barnes - Ali Bourne Karla Faye Tucker - Ciara Morris Hank Skinner - Tom Mason www.minotaurtheatre.co.uk