ABSTRACT
Eight detailed examples of verbatim theatre, documentary theatre and oral history performance projects and practitioners are presented in this chapter, drawing on work from the US, Australia, South Africa and the UK. This work, which has been performed variously by professional actors, students and community groups, demonstrates a range of working methods employed by theatre practitioners in the creation of plays from interviews addressing social, political and historical topics: i.e. verbatim theatre. While some have been written using the verbatim theatre process specifically outlined in this publication, others have not, but are included to illustrate interesting and important points of comparison.
