ПЬЕСА МИРЬЯМ НАЙДХАРТ «НЕОФОБИЯ» КАК ОБРАЗЕЦ ВЕРБАТИМ-ДРАМАТУРГИИ
MIRJAM NEIDHART’S PLAY “NEOPHOBIA” AS AN EXAMPLE OF VERBATIM DRAMA
Author(s): Elena Nikolaevna ShevchenkoSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature, Drama
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: Mirjam Neidhart; contemporary Swiss drama; documentary drama; verbatim; neophobia; birth-rate crisis;
Summary/Abstract: We analyze the specific features of the genre of verbatim drama (a form of documentary drama characterized by word-for-word fixation of the utterances of real people) using the example of the play “Neophobia” (2007) by a Swiss playwright, Mirjam Neidhart. The play addresses the birth-rate crisis in modern Europe and is based on the interviews taken by the author from different people in Germany and Switzerland. We study Neidhart’s play as a typical example of the genre of verbatim drama and make a conclusion that the verbatim technique is based not so much on a creative practice as on a technology borrowed from sociology, and a verbatim play becomes particular variant of social research.
Journal: Ученые записки Казанского университета. Серия Гуманитарные науки
- Issue Year: 156/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 233-241
- Page Count: 9
- Language: Russian
