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Documentary theatre

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Documentary theatre is theatre that uses pre-existing documentary material (such as newspapers, government reports, interviews, journals, and correspondences) as source material for stories about real events and people, frequently without altering the text in performance. [1]

40 relations: Agitprop, Anna Deavere Smith, Bertolt Brecht, Blue Blouse, Docudrama, Documentary film, Eastern Europe, England, Erik Jensen (actor), Erwin Piscator, Federal Theatre Project, Fires in the Mirror, Free Southern Theater, Hallie Flanagan, Interview, Israel, Jessica Blank, Joseph Chaikin, Living Newspaper, Luis Valdez, Martin Duberman, Middle East, Montage (filmmaking), Newspaper, Nola Chilton, Peter Cheeseman, Peter Weiss, Phrynichus (tragic poet), Refugee, Russian Revolution, Tectonic Theater Project, The Exonerated (play), The Investigation (play), The Laramie Project, The Open Theater, United States, Unity Theatre, Liverpool, Vaudeville, Viet Rock, Zoot Suit (play).

Agitprop

Agitprop (from r, portmanteau of "agitation" and "propaganda") is political propaganda, especially the communist propaganda used in Soviet Russia, that is spread to the general public through popular media such as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms with an explicitly political message.

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Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwright, and professor.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Blue Blouse

The Blue Blouse (Синяя блуза, Sinyaya Bluza) was an influential agitprop theatre collective in the early Soviet Union.

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Docudrama

A docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of radio and television programming, feature film, and staged theatre, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Erik Jensen (actor)

Erik Jensen is an American actor and playwright.

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Erwin Piscator

Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty.

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Federal Theatre Project

The Federal Theatre Project (FTP; 1935–39) was a New Deal program to fund theatre and other live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States during the Great Depression.

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Fires in the Mirror

Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities is a one-person play by American playwright, author, actress, and professor Anna Deavere Smith.

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Free Southern Theater

The Free Southern Theater (FST) was a community theater group founded in 1963 at Tougaloo College in Madison County, Mississippi, by Gilbert Moses, Denise Nicholas, Doris Derby, and John O’Neal.

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Hallie Flanagan

Hallie Flanagan Davis (August 27, 1890 in Redfield, South Dakota – June 23, 1969 in Old Tappan, New Jersey) was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

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Interview

An interview is a conversation where questions are asked and answers are given.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Jessica Blank

Jessica Blank (born in New Haven, Connecticut), is an American actress, writer, and director who works in film, television, and theater.

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Joseph Chaikin

Joseph Chaikin (September 16, 1935 –) was an American theatre director, actor, playwright, and pedagogue.

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Living Newspaper

Living Newspaper is a term for a theatrical form presenting factual information on current events to a popular audience.

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Luis Valdez

Luis Miguel Valdez (born June 26, 1940) is an American playwright, actor, writer and film director.

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Martin Duberman

Martin Bauml Duberman (born August 6, 1930) is an American historian, biographer, playwright, and gay rights activist.

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Montage (filmmaking)

Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information.

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Newspaper

A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events.

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Nola Chilton

Nola Chilton (born 1922) is an American-born Israeli theater director and acting teacher.

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Peter Cheeseman

Peter Barrie Cheeseman, CBE (27 January 1932, Cowplain, Hampshire – 27 April 2010) was a British theatre director who is credited with having pioneered "theatre in the round".

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Peter Weiss

Peter Ulrich Weiss (8 November 1916 – 10 May 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality.

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Phrynichus (tragic poet)

Phrynichus (Φρύνιχος), son of Polyphrasmon the Elder and pupil of Thespis, was one of the earliest of the Greek tragedians.

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Refugee

A refugee, generally speaking, is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely (for more detail see legal definition).

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.

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Tectonic Theater Project

Tectonic Theater Project is an award-winning company whose plays have been performed around the world.

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The Exonerated (play)

The Exonerated is a 2002 play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen that debuted Off-Broadway on October 10, 2002 at 45 Bleecker Theater and ran for over 600 performances.

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The Investigation (play)

The Investigation is a play by Peter Weiss written in 1965 which depicts the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963–1965.

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The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project is a 2000 play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project (specifically, Leigh Fondakowski, Stephen Belber, Greg Pierotti, Barbara Pitts, Stephen Wangh, Amanda Gronich, Sara Lambert, John McAdams, Maude Mitchell, Andy Paris, and Kelli Simpkins) about the reaction to the 1998 murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.

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The Open Theater

The Open Theater was an experimental theatre group active from 1963 to 1973.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Unity Theatre, Liverpool

The Unity Theatre in Liverpool, England,was formed by directors Gerry Dawson and Edgar Criddle as the Merseyside Left Theatre in the 1930s.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Viet Rock

Viet Rock is a rock musical by Megan Terry that was the precursor to the musical Hair.

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Zoot Suit (play)

Zoot Suit is a play written by Luis Valdez, featuring incidental music by Daniel Valdez and Lalo Guerrero.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_theatre

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