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Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater (Theater in the Americas)
Jacqueline O'Connor
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
The development of the documentary trial play in late-twentieth-century American theatre.
From the Chicago Conspiracy Trial and the O. J. Simpson trial to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill congressional hearings, legal and legislative proceedings in the latter part of the twentieth-century kept Americans spellbound. Situated on the shifting border between imagination and the law, trial plays edit, arrange, and reproduce court records, media coverage, and first-person interviews, transforming these elements into a performance. In this first book-length critical study of contemporary American documentary theatre, Jacqueline O’Connor examines in depth ten such plays, all written and staged since 1970, and considers ... Read more
The development of the documentary trial play in late-twentieth-century American theatre.
From the Chicago Conspiracy Trial and the O. J. Simpson trial to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill congressional hearings, legal and legislative proceedings in the latter part of the twentieth-century kept Americans spellbound. Situated on the shifting border between imagination and the law, trial plays edit, arrange, and reproduce court records, media coverage, and first-person interviews, transforming these elements into a performance. In this first book-length critical study of contemporary American documentary theatre, Jacqueline O’Connor examines in depth ten such plays, all written and staged since 1970, and considers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809332366
SKU
V9780809332366
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About Jacqueline O'Connor
Jacqueline O’Connor is a professor of English at Boise State University and the author of Dramatizing Dementia: Madness in the Plays of Tennessee Williams
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