Verbatim, Verbatim: Contemporary Documentary Theatre

Five specially commissioned discussions of verbatim theatre - in the words of the people who make it.

'What a verbatim play does is flash your research nakedly. It’s like cooking a meal but the meat is left raw.’ - Max Stafford-Clark

Plays which use people’s actual words as the basis for their dramaare not a new phenomenon. But from the stages of national theatres to fringe venues and universities everywhere, ‘verbatim’ theatre, as it has come to be known, is currently enjoying unprecedented ...