02739nam a2200325Ia 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022020002500063020002200088035002200110040002200132050002200154100002100176245006300197260003200260300002300292490005800315500004100373505075700414520084801171650004602019650006102065650004502126650004902171830005902220942001202279952010702291999001502398on1250349845OCoLCta210512r20202018enka          000 0 eng d  a9780367735562 (pbk.)  a0367735563 (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)1250349845  aTULIBbengcTULIB  aPN1872b.Y68 20201 aYouker, Timothy.10aDocumentary vanguards in modern theatre /cTimothy Youker.  aLondon :bRoutledge,c2020.  aix, 218 p. :bill.1 aRoutledge advances in theatre and performance studies  aReprint. Originally published: 2018.0 aIntroduction -- 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"  a"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" 4aHistorical drama xHistory and criticism. 4aHistorical drama y20th century xHistory and criticism. 4aPolitical plays xHistory and criticism. 4aExperimental theaterxHistory and criticism. 0aRoutledge advances in theatre and performance studies.  2lcccBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oPN1872 .Y68 2020pPNLIB21062507r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c2694d2694