Voicings: Ten Plays from the Documentary TheatreAttilio Favorini Not merely "history" plays, documentary dramas rely on actual rather than imaginary events and incorporate other media such as photographs, film clips, and songs. The plays in Voicings use all these tools and address issues that even today remain raw and emotional. Included are works previously not available in English (Piscator's In Spite of Everything!) and never in print (Compensation, a Soviet documentary on the Chernobyl disaster). Landmark drama such as Peter Weiss's The Investigation is also part of this collection. Included as well are the more recent Execution of Justice by Emily Mann and Mame Hunt's Unquestioned Integrity, a drama on the controversial testimony of Anita Hill at the hearings confirming Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court. |
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... heard , vague at first , then growing clearer as one instrument after another takes it up . It is a sad , keening sort of air . The song mounts and soon a single plaintive voice is heard . The harmony is picked up by all , pianissimo ...
... heard , vague at first , then growing clearer as one instrument after another takes it up . It is a sad , keening sort of air . The song mounts and soon a single plaintive voice is heard . The harmony is picked up by all , pianissimo ...
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... Heard about it yes PROSECUTING ATTORNEY : What did IST WITNESS : I heard you hear they were beaten PROSECUTING ATTORNEY : Who beat them IST WITNESS : I don't know I never saw it happen I just heard about it PROSECUTING ATTORNEY : Did ...
... Heard about it yes PROSECUTING ATTORNEY : What did IST WITNESS : I heard you hear they were beaten PROSECUTING ATTORNEY : Who beat them IST WITNESS : I don't know I never saw it happen I just heard about it PROSECUTING ATTORNEY : Did ...
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... heard , Don't make no delay Or they'll give you the bird . They all sit except the LORD MAYOR . The instru- mental carries on . LORD MAYOR : As you heard , Ladies and Gentle- men , outside all the actual people you have al- ready heard ...
... heard , Don't make no delay Or they'll give you the bird . They all sit except the LORD MAYOR . The instru- mental carries on . LORD MAYOR : As you heard , Ladies and Gentle- men , outside all the actual people you have al- ready heard ...
Contents
IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING 1925 by Erwin Piscator and Felix Gasbarra | 1 |
ETHIOPIA 1936 by Arthur Arent | 14 |
WORLD ON EDGE 1956 by Eric Paice and Roger Woddis | 27 |
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2ND WITNESS 3RD WITNESS 7TH WITNESS ACCUSED 12 ACCUSED 9 Action Committee actors Ann Sidorovich answer asked audience Barrack 11 BILL BILL FOSTER Boger called camp child City COMPANY sing COUNSEL COURT crematorium Dan White DAVID GREENGLASS death DEFENSE doctor documentary theater drama ETHEL ROSENBERG Ethiopia fact FALZON film Finniston fire FRANK furnace George Moscone GIRLS GOVERNMENT Grosses Schauspielhaus hands happened HARRY GOLD Harvey Milk hear heard Honor JUDGE THOMAS JULIUS ROSENBERG JUROR jury killed knew Liebknecht Living Newspaper look Lord Melchett Mama Mayor ment mill MOTHER never NORMAN Pause play political prisoners PROSECUTING ATTORNEY PSYCHOLOGIST question quilt RADIO remember RUTH GREENGLASS SARAH scene SCHMIDT screen SENATOR Shelton Bar shot song Soviet speech stage stand steel talk Ted Smith tell there's thing tion told took trial VOICE White WOMAN y'know