Theatre of Real People

Diverse Encounters at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond

Fiction & Literature, Drama, Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts
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Author: Ulrike Garde, Meg Mumford ISBN: 9781472580238
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: May 19, 2016
Imprint: Methuen Drama Language: English
Author: Ulrike Garde, Meg Mumford
ISBN: 9781472580238
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: May 19, 2016
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Language: English

Theatre of Real People offers fresh perspectives on the current fascination with putting people on stage who present aspects of their own lives and who are not usually trained actors. After providing a history of this mode of performance, and theoretical frameworks for its analysis, the book focuses on work developed by seminal practitioners at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) production house. It invites the reader to explore the HAU's innovative approach to Theatre of Real People, authenticity and cultural diversity during the period of Matthias Lilienthal's leadership (2003–12).

Garde and Mumford also elucidate how Theatre of Real People can create and destabilise a senseof the authentic, and suggest how Authenticity-Effects can present new ways of perceiving diverse and unfamiliar people. Through a detailed analysis of key HAU productions such as Lilienthal's brainchild X-Apartments, Mobile Academy's Blackmarket, and Rimini Protokoll's 100% City, the book explores both the artistic agenda of an important European theatre institution, and a crucial aspect of contemporary theatre's social engagement.

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Theatre of Real People offers fresh perspectives on the current fascination with putting people on stage who present aspects of their own lives and who are not usually trained actors. After providing a history of this mode of performance, and theoretical frameworks for its analysis, the book focuses on work developed by seminal practitioners at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) production house. It invites the reader to explore the HAU's innovative approach to Theatre of Real People, authenticity and cultural diversity during the period of Matthias Lilienthal's leadership (2003–12).

Garde and Mumford also elucidate how Theatre of Real People can create and destabilise a senseof the authentic, and suggest how Authenticity-Effects can present new ways of perceiving diverse and unfamiliar people. Through a detailed analysis of key HAU productions such as Lilienthal's brainchild X-Apartments, Mobile Academy's Blackmarket, and Rimini Protokoll's 100% City, the book explores both the artistic agenda of an important European theatre institution, and a crucial aspect of contemporary theatre's social engagement.

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