02619nam a2200313Ia 4500 on1250349845 OCoLC ta 210512r20202018enka 000 0 eng d 9780367735562 (pbk.) 0367735563 (pbk.) (OCoLC)1250349845 TULIB eng TULIB PN1872 .Y68 2020 Youker, Timothy. Documentary vanguards in modern theatre / Timothy Youker. London : Routledge, 2020. ix, 218 p. : ill. Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies Reprint. Originally published: 2018. Introduction -- PART I. Sordid actuality (1835-1922) -- 1. Georg Büchner and the breakdown of the history play -- 2. Embarrassing relatives: naturalism, true crime, and bohemian memory -- 3. Karl Kraus's cannibal satire and pedagogies of reception -- PART II. Vanguards of revolution and reform (1917-1984) -- 4. The documentary and communist vanguards -- 5. Midcentury documentaries: for and against liberalism -- 6. Activist endings and optative documentaries -- PART III. Documentary theatre after postmodernism (1977- ) -- 7. The Wooster Group and Anna Deavere Smith: parallax, play, and collage ethics -- 8. Handspring Puppet Company: reconciling with the avant-garde -- 9. Too much information -- Conclusion: "This is not a story about failure" "Practitioners and critics alike often attribute great authenticity to documentary theatre, casting it as a salutary alternative not only to corporate news outlets and official histories but also to the supposed "self-indulgence" and "elitism" of avant-garde theatre. Documentary Vanguards in Modern Theatre, by contrast, argues for treating documentarians as vanguardists who (for good or ill) push, remap, or transgress the margins of historical and political visibility, often taking issue with professional discourses that claim a monopoly on authoritative representations of the real. This is the first book to situate documentary theatre's development within the larger story of theatrical experimentalism, collage art, collective ritual, and other avant-garde dramaturgical and performance practices of the late 19th and 20th Centuries" Historical drama History and criticism. Historical drama 20th century History and criticism. Political plays History and criticism. Experimental theater History and criticism. Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 PN1872 .Y68 2020 PNLIB21062507 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2694 2694