Writing 20: Theatre Verbatim/Verboten

Writing Final Paper

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Nick just want you to take a look at the poster. It’s not done because it needs to include the theme though.

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In the intro paragraph I mention that directors that put on the play are incredibly liberal in thought, perform in small forums, and get mixed reviews from their audiences. This would be a great time for me to use evidence as to why that may be the case. What is appealing to directors about a [...]

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In her book Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction, professor Patricia Aufderheide asserts that the genre of documentary has two “crucial elements” that are constantly competing: representation and reality (9).  All documentaries distort reality somehow during production, but they are still making a “truthful representation of reality” (10).  One important factors of representation of a [...]

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Fictional Documentary —–Interactions Between Real Life and Real-life-based Theatre In her analysis in the article, Bodies of Evidence, Carol Martin describes that “contemporary documentary theatre represents a struggle to shape and remember the most transitory history—the complex ways in which men and women think about the events that shape the landscapes of their lives. ” [...]

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Through my interviews, I had the opportunity to interview three former students from the Leesville High School. Although all my interviewees were quite homogenous (young white females) it was interesting to observe the spectrum of opinions on the matter. They fell quite nicely actually, one leaned more toward neighborhood schools, one saw both sides of [...]

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For a 2006 OpenStage Theatre production of The Exonerated in Fort Collins, Colorado, the company produced a study guide for the performance.  The study guide included materials on the success of The Exonerated, background information on the death penalty, biographical information about the authors, and general information about creating a stage production.  One of the [...]

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“The 5-Minute Interview: Robin Soans, Writer and Actor,” conducted by Amy Salter in The Independent, a well established British news paper that typically leans liberal, tells us a little bit about the inspiration for the play written by Robin Soans called “Talking to Terrorists.”  The London based theater company, Out of Joint, first performed this [...]

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