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Some of theatre’s most powerful works in the past thirty years fall into the category of ‘verbatim theatre’, socially engaged performances whose texts rely on word-for-word testimony. But in this moment of what Ryan Claycomb terms the ‘rightward lurch’ of western democracies, does this idealized space of democratic deliberation remain effective?

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: In the Lurch
One: Democratic Deliberation and the Theatricalized Public Sphere
Two: Debating in Utopia
Three: Feeling Together
Four: The Opposite of Empathy is Suspicion
Coda: Nostalgia; or, the Pastness of the Present
Bibliography

In the Lurch

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/18/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472075744, 978-0472075744
      ISBN10: 0472075748
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Some of theatre’s most powerful works in the past thirty years fall into the category of ‘verbatim theatre’, socially engaged performances whose texts rely on word-for-word testimony. But in this moment of what Ryan Claycomb terms the ‘rightward lurch’ of western democracies, does this idealized space of democratic deliberation remain effective?

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: In the Lurch
      One: Democratic Deliberation and the Theatricalized Public Sphere
      Two: Debating in Utopia
      Three: Feeling Together
      Four: The Opposite of Empathy is Suspicion
      Coda: Nostalgia; or, the Pastness of the Present
      Bibliography

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