Performing Truth: Works of Radical Memory for Times of Social Amnesia, B PB..

Performing TruthWorks of Radical Memory for Times of Social Amnesia\nAuthor(s): L.M. Bogad\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367490331, 978-0367490331\nSynopsis\nPerforming Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining, and galvanizing way. How to make data compelling and documents mobilizing? How to keep an audience interested in what might be dry, dire, or depressing? How to surprise an audience and keep them alert? \n\nCollecting together the performance texts of international performance artist and activist [url] Bogad, this book accompanies each script with essays that further explore that work's performance strategies. It also equips readers with specific resources and pedagogical tools to help those wishing to stage these pieces or create their own work to engage with .