The Thing that Doesn’t Fit
During my PhD studies at the University of Toronto, I had the great privilege of having for my supervisor Shakespearean scholar par excellence Alexander (Sandy) Leggatt. This was back when […]
Tag Archives: verbatim
How is verbatim theatre like a live rock concert?
In his book Liveness, Philip Auslander cites Lawrence Grossberg who writes: the importance of live performance lies precisely in the fact that it is only here that one can see […]
Zola’s bastards: The (non?)realism of the 21st century real
Here is a perhaps odd question: Are theatres of the real (documentary, verbatim, immersive, site-specific performance) realistic/naturalistic or non-realistic/non-naturalistic? What makes me ask? I am (re)reading essays in Get Real: […]
Artist-tyrants and aspiring divinities
In a previous blog about Liz Tomlin’s fantastic book Acts and Apparitions (recently released in paperback), I quoted Tomlin’s challenge to the creators of radical performance: “In a world where we […]
The readymade real: selectivity and the frame
Last weekend I had the privilege to attend the Festival of Original Theatre conference 2016 presented by the students at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, Theatre and Performance […]
“Craigslist Cantata” as Found Verbatim
Yesterday I caught up with the production Do You Want What I Have Got: A Craigslist Cantata with lyrics by Bill Richardson and music by Veda Hille. Premiering at the […]
Verbatim theatre: Porte Parole’s “Seeds”
Certainly a project that takes the performance of the real on stage as its primary point of departure must be interested in verbatim theatre. (Verbatim theatre refers to the practice […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 