Documentary Vanguards in Modern Theatre (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

Youker, Timothy

ISBN 10: 1138081000 / ISBN 13: 9781138081000

Published by Routledge, 2017

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pp. 264.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Documentary Vanguards in Modern Theatre (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138081000
• ISBN 13: 9781138081000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Practitioners and critics alike often attribute great authenticity to documentary theatre, casting it as a salutary alternative not only to corporate news outlets and official histories but also to the supposed "self-indulgence" and "elitism" of avant-garde theatre.

Documentary Vanguards in Modern Theatre, by contrast, argues for treating documentarians as vanguardists who (for good or ill) push, remap, or transgress the margins of historical and political visibility, often taking issue with professional discourses that claim a monopoly on authoritative representations of the real. This is the first book to situate documentary theatre’s development within the larger story of theatrical experimentalism, collage art, collective ritual, and other avant-garde dramaturgical and performance practices of the late 19th and 20th Centuries.

About the Author

Timothy Youker holds a PhD in Theatre from Columbia University. He has taught Theatre and Drama at Columbia and at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and was most recently appointed as an Assistant Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto, Mississauga.