Documentary theatre
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Documentary theatre is theatre that uses pre-existing documentary material as source material for stories about real events and people, frequently without altering the text in performance. The genre t
Triple-A Plowed Under (1936), Federal Theater Project
The Laramie Project
My Name Is Rachel Corrie
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My Name Is Rachel Corrie is a play based on the diaries and emails of activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli soldier when she was aged 23. It was jointly edited by journalist Katharine V
Documentary theatre
…sequel, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, both about the murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998; Talking to Terrorists by Robin Soans, My Name Is Rachel Corrie by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, Deep Cut by Philip Ralph and Katharine Viner, The Permanent Way by David Hare, and Counted (2010) by LookLeftLookRight…
My Name Is Rachel Corrie at the Playhouse Theatre, London, 2006.
Cover of book version of play.