Docudrama & Verbatim Theatre

Primary Sources & Secondary Sources

• Finding Primary Sources /  Primary Sources Online (UofT) 

  • Primary & Secondary Sources Explained

• Internet Archives

• Google Books

Databases:

• • History Reference Center

  • AP Source

  • Explora

  • Canadian Points of View

  • Global Issues

  • The Canadian Encyclopedia | Britannica

• • Toronto Public Library | A-Z List of Databases: 

    • Performance Design Archive Online

    • National Theater Collection

    • Theatre in Context

    • Theatre in Video

    • Audio Drama: L.A. Theatre Works Collection

    • Globe and Mail Historical Newspaper Archive (1844-201)

Search Engines

• • • Go Beyond Google: The Best Alternative Search Engines | PC Mag

    • Google Scholar | Microsoft Academic - Academic journal search engines

    • JSTOR (Social Science journal database - limited access)

    • Directory of Open Access Journals

    • Journalistresource.org

Tools for Historical Research:

• Reading, Writing and Researching for History

• Writing about History

• Teacher's Guides and Analysis Tool  / Using Primary Sources (Library of Congress)

Articles: Documentary & Verbatim Theatre

• What is Verbatim Theatre? 

• Verbatim Theatre Lesson 1: What is Verbatim Theatre? (includes 2 videos of student productions)

• "Supercharged Reality: documentary and theatrical disciplinarity"

• A History of U.S. Documentary Theatre in Three Stages

• How Do You Solve a Problem Like Documentary Theatre?

• Real Talk About Real Talk: Some of documentary theatre’s leaders discuss the art of the interview—and the deeply personal play-making that comes after.

• Town in a Mirror: ‘The Laramie Project’ revisits an American tragedy.

• In the post-truth era, documentary theatre searches for common ground (Canadian)

• Behind the Words: The Art of Documentary and Verbatim Theatre (MA Thesis paper)

RHSA Books: Verbatim Theatre 

• • Acting in Documentary Theatre  792.028 CAN   

  • Reasonable Doubt (New!) "A verbatim play with music"

  • My name is Rachel Corrie : taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie  822 COR 

  • Heather Raffo's 9 parts of desire : a play  812 RAF    

  • Twilight -- Los Angeles, 1992 on the road : a search for American 812 SMI 

  • Laramie Project 812 KAU 

  • I am My Own Wife 812 WRI

  • Gross Indecency: the three trials of Oscar Wilde 812 KAU

  • The Vagina Monologues 812 ENS 

  • The exonerated : a play 812 BLA

  • More ideas: Plays / Verbatim Theatre

TIPS: 15 Useful Documentary Drama Tips For The Classroom