Using new interview material with actors, directors and writers, this book explores the challenges of performance in documentary theatre. Through a series of hi

Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realitie

What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relati

This book proposes a new way to consider theatre and performance that claims a special relationship to reality, truth and authenticity. It documents innovations