Documentary/Oral History Dramas

Question 1

Theatre of Fact

Answer 1

-germans 1960’s
-brechtian roots, political message
Peter Weiss (german, 1965)
-THE INVESTIGATION
Eric bentley (U.s. 1972)
-ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN (McCarthy trials)

-CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO (u.S. 1999)-airforce/aviation plane crash

Question 2

Docu drama

Answer 2

Moises Kaufman

-GROSS INDECENY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE

Question 3

Oral History: Moises Kaufman

Answer 3

LARAMIE PROJECT: play about boy put in coma for being gay, 8 actors talked to towns ppl and act and speak like ppl of Laramie, over 40 characters
I AM MY OWN WIFE-multiple characters too
GROSS INDECENY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE

Question 4

SOLO PERF/ORAL HISTORY: Anna Devere Smith

Answer 4

external approach, interviewed then imitated

FIRES IN THE MIRROR-very objective

Question 5

SOLO: EVE ENSLER

Answer 5

THE VAGINA MONOLOUGES

THE GOOD BODY

Question 6

SOLO/PERFORMANCE ART

Answer 6

Karen Finley
-smeared body with chocolate and ppl paid to lick off her

Lisa Kron

Lily Tomlin, John Leguizamo= Borderline stand up

Spalding Gray: SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA (1987, all treu topics)

Question 7

Thr of Community

Answer 7

Bill Rauch-Cornerstone Thr. CO.

TARTUFFE, R AND J, PROMETHEUS BOUND

Question 8

Politics in Thr

Answer 8

STUFF HAPPENS
THE GUYS (2 ppl about AIDs)
SIN, CARDINAL EXPOSED
ZERO DARK THIRTY