PERF219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Paleoart, Artistic License, Qualitative Inquiry
PERF219 Lecture Notes Tuesday 20th March 2018
Verbatim and Ethnodrama
Under the Umbrella – Applied Theatre
Verbatim Theatre
- Verbatim theatre uses the actual words of people, often in direct first person
address or testimonial style, to raise issues relevant to a particular community and to
activate broader social engagement.
o When theatrically is added, it becomes performance ethnography
- We use verbatim theatre to engage in a wider pedagogical project of consciousness-
raising and community engagement and how, in turn, a groups respond, artistically,
and personally to their provocation.
- The ter erati theatre artiulates a for of theatre hih plaes iteries
ith people at the heart of the proess
- Lida Aloffs otio of the proleati of speakig for others hih has at its
etre a oer ith aoutailit ad resposiilit
- Quicker than writing from your head
- Make sure you adhere to ethics when usig other peoples stories
Working verbatim is not an easy task
- It is challenging not least because there are palpable tensions between the ethical
halleges of dealig ith peoples stories ad the aestheti halleges of reatig
interesting theatre from them.
- Julie Salerso asks ho do theatre orkers egotiate the ultiple resposiilities
of itegrit, iagiatio, ispiratio ad raft?
Modelling Verbatim
- Parramatta girls
o Real life stories of ex-inmates of the Girls Training School, Parramatta
Ethnodrama Unpacked
- A word joining ethnography and drama
o A written play script consisting of dramatized, significant selections of
narrative collected from interview transcripts, participant observation field
notes, journal entries, personal memories/experiences, and/or print and
media artefacts such as diaries, blogs, e-mail correspondence, television
broadcasts, newspaper articles, court proceedings, and historical documents
- Providing an arena for the silent or marginalised – stried for authenticity,
transcribing and feeding back to their source communities, through performance,
with some exactitude and respect, life stories and oral history remembrances
garnered from taped interviews
- The alignment of the old art of storytelling with newer technologies like taping, in
order to make a performance script out of the words of the original storytellers
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Document Summary
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