documentary theatre

On stage, it is sometimes known as documentary theatre.

The result was described as a vivid, honest and uniquely moving form of documentary theatre.

Piscator thus embraced the idea of a politically committed 'documentary theatre'.

Until his death in 1966, Piscator was a major exponent of contemporary and documentary theatre.

Paper Wheat was an example of documentary theatre, with company members traveling to local communities to collect stories about Saskatchewan history.

Wang has become the leading force of Chinese experimental theatre for his explorations in multimedia performance and documentary theatre.

The exploration of examples of documentary theatre will help to reduce confusion regarding the purpose of this theatrical genre.

Founded in 1974, the theatre works with marginalized and disadvantaged communities using a combination of documentary theatre, music and recorded voices.

Documentary theatre has existed as a genre for as long as theatre itself has existed.

Yesterday Was a Weird Day is a documentary theatre production which brings together personal testimonies from the London bombings of the 7 July 2005.

The play was re-staged at the Minerva theatre and featured in the 1952 documentary Theatre in Australia.

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.

Its use of numerous historical sources and extensive quotations from original political speeches meant that the play was seen in the 20th century as the precursor to documentary theatre.

In 2005, a "documentary theatre" production dramatizing the court battle, entitled Seeds, by Annabel Soutar, was staged in Montreal.

In 2011, 8, a play re-enacting the proceedings of Perry v. Brown in a condensed manner of documentary theatre, was premiered on Broadway.

Banner Theatre in Birmingham, England, in the United Kingdom, is an example of a specific kind of political theatre called Documentary theatre.

The Civilians-the very, very cool documentary theatre troupe-has used researching and reporting techniques to explore everything from the Paris Commune to the things that people lose ("Gone Missing").

Documentary theatre is theatre that wholly or in part uses pre-existing documentary material (such as newspapers, government reports, interviews, etc.) as source material for the script, ideally without altering its wording.

In 1927 Brecht became part of the "dramaturgical collective" of Erwin Piscator's first company, which was designed to tackle the problem of finding new plays for its "epic, political, confrontational, documentary theatre".

In its modern form, documentary theatre was pioneered by two famous German authors and directors - Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator in the 1920s, focusing on issues of social conflict, class tensions and power structures.

Then it was over to the Lir, the newly opened national academy of dramatic art, where Brokentalkers was staging The Blue Boy, a troubling piece of documentary theatre about Ireland's industrial schools, where religious orders would educate orphaned children.

In an effort to understand what is acknowledged as a subject of great complexity, the National Theatre asked four of the most distinct and exciting playwrights in British theatre to collaborate on a new piece of documentary theatre about climate change.

However, they are often announced as the inventors of a new form of documentary theatre, exploring a theatre of performers who are not professional actors but experts or specialists out of their particular spheres of life-professionals of a theatre of the real world.

In 2005 he collaborated with theatre directors Mimi Poskitt and Ben Freedman on a documentary theatre production Yesterday Was a Weird Day about the July 7th bombings in London which featured British actress Charity Wakefield.