This article was published in Konan Women’s University Journal of Literature and Culture (59):2023 pp.47-57. Bibliographic data | Article download link Abstract Between 1931 and 1940, the Salford based Theatre of Action (TOA) produced a series of agit-prop plays that experimented with proto-documentary theatre forms, including the political review and the living newspaper. Among these plays was Newsboy (1935),…
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Dwelling on the Documentary Body in Takuya Murakawa’s “Independent Living”
Paper given at the International Federation for Theatre Research Conference (IFTR) in Belgrade, July 12, 2018, as part of the Choreography and Corporeality Working Group. The premise behind Takuya Murakawa’s “Independent Living” 2017, is deceptively simple. An audience member is invited to play the role of a patient. S/he is instructed to lie in silence…
On document becomings and the documentary theatre
Article published in Konan Women’s University Journal of Literature and Culture (52):2015 p.9-15. Bibliographic data | Article download link Abstract The technological and cultural changes to the constitution and usage of documents often preempt, outperform even, the capacity of institutions to validate and integrate new document formations within their orders of signification. In such instances, the document…
Voices of Syria's war haunt Tokyo stage
This article was originally published in the Japan Times newspaper on Oct 30 2013. The war in Syria has been making headlines for more than two years now, but it’s made very little impact on the theater world in Japan. Next month, though, that’s set to change with the Tokyo staging of “The Fear of…
Debris from the ‘dispersal zone’: digital documents, diegesis and the documentary theatre
An analysis of digital document formations in the wake of the August 2011 riots in London through a reading of the Tricycle Theatre’s verbatim play, The Riots.
Andrew Eglinton 