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INTRODUCTION
Miss Tiller
Lesson objectives -
In pairs, label yourselves A & B.
A's- you now have 30 seconds to tell B about how your day has been so far, what you had for breakfast, your favourite lesson etc.
B's - Watch and listen carefully!
B -Your aim is to recreate A's story, using as many mannerisms and exact words as you can!
Based on that short exercise, can anyone take an educated guess at what they think 'verbatim theatre' may be?
Verbatim theatre is a form of documented theatre in which plays are constructed from the real words spoken by people about a particular event or topic.
In its strictest form, verbatim theatre-makers use real people’s words exclusively, and take this testimony from recorded interviews.
However, the form is more malleable than this, and writers have frequently combined interview material, or specific quotations with devised scenes, or used reported and remembered speech about an event, rather than recorded testimony.
lots of rhetorical questions
Go home, please.
Challenge: try to use one (or more!) of these other techniques within your piece: thought tracking, freeze frames, narration, addressing the audience.
Think - Pair - Share
Verbatim Theatre gives voice to people who would not normally have a platform. It 'offers a voice to the voiceless' Robin Belfield. 2018.
“Verbatim theatre offers an audience a truth and authenticity that even the most well crafted and researched plays can't,” Robin Belfield, 2018.
Do audiences react differently knowing that the stories being told are to the letter?
“Yes, very much so. That made them more funny, more extreme, more painful and brutal, because ultimately they were true.' Peter Darney. 2015.
Think - Pair - Share
The process creates dialogue in a way that most playwrights have to manufacture otherwise. The subjects speak naturally, so their dialogue includes all the ums, pauses, slang, regionalisms, dialects, repeated words, and other speech mannerisms that happen in natural speech
It is also a tool to study the physicality of a specific person or group of people. How do you imitate the gestures, physical stance, and expressions of someone else?
Verbatim Theatre is a great way for you to work on creating a physical character and to hear/analyse natural dialogue for your devised pieces.