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    Verbatim Theatre - Alecky Blythe

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    Verbatim theatre uses real people's words to explore events and themes through their perspectives. It involves conducting interviews on a topic, transcribing them, editing them into a performance, and having actors represent the real people interviewed either by mimicking them exactly or portraying their essence. The objective is to tell stories from a range of voices and viewpoints without a single angle or urgent objective, but with perspective. It aims to faithfully represent the real people involved and revive political theatre.

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    Verbatim theatre uses real people's words to explore events and themes through their perspectives. It involves conducting interviews on a topic, transcribing them, editing them into a performance, and having actors represent the real people interviewed either by mimicking them exactly or portraying their essence. The objective is to tell stories from a range of voices and viewpoints without a single angle or urgent objective, but with perspective. It aims to faithfully represent the real people involved and revive political theatre.

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    Verbatim theatre uses real people's words to explore events and themes through their perspectives. It involves conducting interviews on a topic, transcribing them, editing them into a performance, and having actors represent the real people interviewed either by mimicking them exactly or portraying their essence. The objective is to tell stories from a range of voices and viewpoints without a single angle or urgent objective, but with perspective. It aims to faithfully represent the real people involved and revive political theatre.

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    Verbatim Theatre - Alecky Blythe

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    Verbatim theatre uses real people's words to explore events and themes through their perspectives. It involves conducting interviews on a topic, transcribing them, editing them into a performance, and having actors represent the real people interviewed either by mimicking them exactly or portraying their essence. The objective is to tell stories from a range of voices and viewpoints without a single angle or urgent objective, but with perspective. It aims to faithfully represent the real people involved and revive political theatre.

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    Verbatim Theatre – Alecky

    Blythe
    - Theatre made from real people’s words
    - Form of documentary theatre
    - Explore events and themes through the words of
    people at the heart of them
    - Revival of political theatre

    Creation:
    - Transcription of interviews connected by a common event of
    subject
    - Edited into a performance
    - Actors usually conduct the research and feed back to a writer
    or director or company making the piece

    Characterisation:
    - Some attempt to mimic counterparts exactly, some represent
    them less literally
    - Characters are often representing a real, specific person
    - May be identifiable, or name and characteristics may be
    changed
    - Sometimes characters are amalgamations of more than one
    person
    - Actors speak of a loyalty to the person they represent and
    aim to do right by them

    Storytelling:
    - Similar to that of journalism but with a different objective
    - Aim to tell a stories in a non urgent way, but with more
    perspective
    - A range of voices are heard and represented in a vividly
    immediate way
    - Looks at the whole picture, or a wide range of view points at
    the very least, without an ‘angle’

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