Get Real

1. Introduction
Alison Forsyth, Chris Megson

2. The Promise of Documentary
Janelle Reinelt

3. Mediating the 1930s: Documentary and Politics in Theatre Union’s Last Edition (1940)
Ben Harker

4. History in the Driving Seat: Unity Theatre and the Embrace of the ‘Real’
Colin Chambers

5. The Documentary Body: Theatre Workshop to Banner Theatre
Alan Filewod

6. Living Simulations: The Use of Media in Documentary in the UK, Lebanon and Israel
Carol Martin

7. Looking for Esrafil: Witnessing ‘Refugitive’ Bodies in I’ve got something to show you

Alison Jeffers

8. Remembering the Past, ‘Growing Ourselves a Future’: Community-Based Documentary Theatre in the East Palo Alto Project
Liberty Smith

9. Ngapartji Ngapartji: Telling Aboriginal Australian Stories
Maryrose Casey

10. Performing Trauma: Race Riots and Beyond in the Work of Anna Deavere Smith
Alison Forsyth

11. History, Memory and Trauma in the Documentary Plays of Emily Mann
Attilio Favorini

12. When Heroes Fall: Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife and the Challenge to Truth
Nels P. Highberg

13. The Performance of Truth and Justice in Northern Ireland: The Case of Bloody Sunday
Carole-Anne Upton

14. Half the Picture: ‘A Certain Frisson’ at the Tricycle Theatre
Chris Megson

15. Verbatim Theatre in South Africa: ‘Living History in a Person’s Performance’
Yvette Hutchison

16. The ‘Broken Tradition’ of Documentary Theatre and Its Continued Powers of Endurance
Derek Paget

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Film History, Performing Arts, Literature, general, Social History