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Subject(s)

• Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin, Germany) [Browse]
• Theater—Production and direction—Germany—Berlin [Browse]
• Theater and society [Browse]

Author

• Mumford, Meg [Browse]

Series

• Methuen drama engage. [More in this series]
• Methuen Drama engage

Summary note

"Theatre of Real People offers fresh perspectives on the current fascination with putting people on stage who present aspects of their own lives and who are not usually trained actors. After providing a history of this mode of performance, and theoretical frameworks for its analysis, the book focuses on work developed by seminal practitioners at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) production house. It invites the reader to explore the HAU's innovative approach to Theatre of Real People, authenticity and cultural diversity during the period of Matthias Lilienthal's leadership (2003-12). Garde and Mumford also elucidate how Theatre of Real People can create and destabilize a sense of the authentic, and suggest how Authenticity-Effects can present new ways of perceiving diverse and unfamiliar people. Through a detailed analysis of key HAU productions such as Lilienthal's brainchild X-Apartments, Mobile Academy's Blackmarket, and Rimini Protokoll's 100% City, the book explores both the artistic agenda of an important European theatre institution, and a crucial aspect of contemporary theatre's social engagement."--Page [4] of cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction
• A historical perspective on Theatre of Real People
• Theatre of Real People at the HAU
• Theatre and authenticity-effects
• Encounters with cultural diversity at the HAU
• Berliners with an 'authenticity guarantee': cultural complexity in 100% Berlin and 100% City
• Meeting unfamiliar residents in Berlin: playing with frames of reference in X-Apartments
• Unsettling journey into the unfamiliar: ambiguous guides to the city in Cal Cutta: Mobile Phone Theatre
• Getting closer to the subjects of migration: partial proximity in Blackmarket no. 7 and Mr Dağac̦ar and the Golden Tectonics of Trash.

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ISBN

• 9781472580221 (hardback)
• 1472580222 (hardback)

OCLC

948512300

RCP

H - S

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