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Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real begins with the premise that although the inclusion of real objects and real words on the stage would ostensibly seem to increase the epistemological security and documentary truth-value of the presentation, in fact the opposite is the case.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Real People Part 1: Winning and/or losing the game of life in autobiographical performance—Winners and Losers 3. Real People Part 2: Insecurity and ethical failure in the encounter with stranger—100% Vancouver, RARE, and Polyglotte 4. Real Words: Reproducing life in remediated verbatim theatre—Seeds and 300 TAPES 5. Real Space: The insecure geographies of site-specific audio walks—Garden/ /Suburbia and Landline 6. Real Bodies Part 1: The traumatic real in immersive performances of political crisis and insecurity—Counting Sheep and Foreign Radical 7. Real Bodies Part 2: Narcissistic spectatorship in theatrical "haunted houses" of solo immersive performance—Everyman 8. Coda: Theatres of the real in the age of post-reality

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 14 April 2019
      ISBN-13 9781487501853
      978-1487501853
      ISBN-10 1487501854
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      Individual actors Theatre management

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real begins with the premise that although the inclusion of real objects and real words on the stage would ostensibly seem to increase the epistemological security and documentary truth-value of the presentation, in fact the opposite is the case.

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction 2. Real People Part 1: Winning and/or losing the game of life in autobiographical performance—Winners and Losers 3. Real People Part 2: Insecurity and ethical failure in the encounter with stranger—100% Vancouver, RARE, and Polyglotte 4. Real Words: Reproducing life in remediated verbatim theatre—Seeds and 300 TAPES 5. Real Space: The insecure geographies of site-specific audio walks—Garden/ /Suburbia and Landline 6. Real Bodies Part 1: The traumatic real in immersive performances of political crisis and insecurity—Counting Sheep and Foreign Radical 7. Real Bodies Part 2: Narcissistic spectatorship in theatrical "haunted houses" of solo immersive performance—Everyman 8. Coda: Theatres of the real in the age of post-reality

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