Verbatim Theatre Methodologies for Community Engaged Practice

<p><em>Verbatim Theatre Methodologies for Community-Engaged Practice</em> offers a framework for developing original community-engaged productions using a range of verbatim theatre approaches. </p><p>This book's methodologies offer an approach to community-engaged productions that fosters collaborative artistry ethically nuanced practice and social intentionality. Through research-based discussion case study analysis and exercises it provides a historical context for verbatim theatre; outlines the ethics and methods for community immersion that form the foundation of community-engaged best practice; explores the value of interviews and how to go about them; provides clear pathways for translating gathered data into an artistic product; and offers rehearsal room strategies for playwrights producers directors and actors in managing the specific context of the verbatim theatre form. </p><p>Based on diverse real-world practice that spans regional metropolitan large-scale micro independent commercial and curriculum-based work this is a practical and accessible guide for undergraduates artists and researchers alike.</p>