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Verbatim Theatre- Verbatim plays are, as the name suggests, written using only verbatim testimony. The playwright interviews people (or finds testimony, documentation or written articles) that are connected to the topic that the play is focused on and uses their testimony to construct the piece.
You are looking to get the audience to think about an issue or sympathise with specific people. This means that you are looking to gain pathos for the characters, this is easier to gain when the audience know it is real. Also the play should present questions, perhaps have a central question.
Conventions of Verbatim Theatre
Conventions of Verbatim Theatre
• docu-drama/ documentary Theatre
• Verbatim text
• Have a question at the centre of the piece
• Essence of the character
• composite characters
• realism
• Re-enactment
• Direct Address
• choral speech
• multi-role playing
• montage
• Physical Theatre
• multi-media (projection)
• Headphone verbatim
Gathering text
Gathering text
- Interview by the actor/ director/ writer
- Youtube,
- Television programs (question time, news, reality TV- anything where people are not acting),
- Newspaper articles,
- Blogs
- Court transcripts
- Tweets (good for a montage)
The key is to find someone being real and genuine, anything where it is composed as a character is not verbatim theatre, it has to be the real words of a real person.
The key is to find someone being real and genuine, anything where it is composed as a character is not verbatim theatre, it has to be the real words of a real person.
A guide to creating verbatim theatre.mp4A guide to creating Verbatim Theatre
A guide to creating Verbatim Theatre
Four very different versions of Verbatim Theatre
Four very different versions of Verbatim Theatre
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