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Carol Martin is a professor of drama at New York University and a leading scholar in contemporary performance studies. Her research focuses on documentary theatre, political performance, and the intersections of art and social reality.
Known for: Theatre of the Real
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Theatre of the Real
This book explores how contemporary performance engages with reality, examining documentary theatre, verbatim plays, and performances that blur the boundaries between fact and fiction. Carol Martin analyzes how artists use real events, people, and materials to create works that challenge audiences’ perceptions of truth and representation in the theatre.
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Historical context: The evolution of documentary and reality-based theatre
The roots of the theatre of the real reach deep into twentieth-century social and political upheavals. To understand today’s practices, we must trace the lineage from agitprop and documentary movements of the early 1900s to contemporary hybrid works. I often begin with Erwin Piscator’s revolutionary...
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Theoretical framework: Truth, authenticity, and representation
At the conceptual core of *Theatre of the Real* lies a set of tensions that every practitioner must confront. When theatre claims to present truth, what kind of truth is it invoking? As I argue, the real in performance is never singular; it oscillates among the factual, the emotional, and the percep...
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Carol Martin is a professor of drama at New York University and a leading scholar in contemporary performance studies. Her research focuses on documentary theatre, political performance, and the intersections of art and social reality.
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