Get real : documentary theatre past and present / edited by Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson.

Includes bibliography (p. 239-248) and index.

Introduction/ Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson -- 1. The promise of documentary/ Janelle Reinelt -- 2. Mediating the 1930s: documentary and politics in Theatre Union's Last Edition (1940)/ Ben Harker -- 3. History in the Driving Seat: Unity Theatre and embrace of the 'real'/ Colin Chambers -- 4. The documentary body: theatre workshop to banner theatre/ Alan Filewod -- 5. Living simulations: the use of media in documentary in the UK, Levanon and Israel/ Carol Martin -- 6. Looking for Esrafil: witnessing 'refugitive' bodies in I've Got Something to Show You/ Alison Jeffers -- 7. Remembering the past, 'Growing ourselves a future': community-based documentary theatre in the east Palo Alto project/ Liberty Smith -- 8. Ngapartji Ngapartzi: telling aboriginal Australian stories/ Maryrose Casey -- 9. Performing trauma: race riots and beyond in the work of Anna Deavere Smith/ Alison Forsyth -- 10. History, memory and trauma in the documentary plays of Emily Mann/ Attilio Favorini -- 11. When heroes fall: Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife and the Challenge to Truth/ Nels P. Highberg -- 12. The performance of truth and justice in northern Ireland: the case of Bloody Sunday/ Carole-Anne Upton -- 13. Half the picture: 'A certain Frisson' at the Tricycle Theatre/ Chris Megson -- 14. Verbatim theatre in South Africa: 'Living history in a person's performance'/ Yvette Hutchison -- 15. The 'Broken tradition' of Documentary/ Theatre and its continued powers of endurance.