Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Verbatim Theatre and a Dramaturgy of Belonging
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'The process of creating verbatim theatre often involves interviewing a community of storytellers, documenting these conversations and using the stories to inform the creative development of a play. These practices prompt the act of personal storytelling, and the material generated in a verbatim theatre process often includes the core features of belonging, such as identity narratives, people making sense of their experiences and discursively identifying their sense of self and how they belong in their community. I suggest that these features, in combination with the common verbatim conventions of direct address and diegetic theatricality, form a dramaturgy of belonging. I propose a dramaturgy of belonging and suggest that the sense of community belonging experienced by audiences is a direct result of the practice of community immersion and interviewing in a verbatim theatre process.'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Australasian Drama Studies no. 74 May 2019 16837602 2019 periodical issue 'It may be a form of dramaturgical or scholarly magical thinking that leads me to seek patterns and connecting threads in ten articles published in a general issue of an academic journal. For there need be none. A general issue demands a different curatorial approach to that of a special issue with a focus on a particular theme, subject or question. The editor calls for submissions, evaluates those submissions primarily according to one’s judgement of that nebulous and contested criteria of ‘quality’. They send drafts to peer reviewers, and make final decisions based (again) on the ‘quality’ of re-drafts, and on available space.' (Yoni Prior : Editorial introduction) 2019 pg. 39-63
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