Reframing the document(ary)

Exploring asylum policies on stage

Bibliographic Data

ID15081022
AuthorsFriederike Oberkrome (CRC 1171 Affective Societies, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume23
Issue2
Pages259-273
Publication date2018-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueResearch in Drama Education The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-9783 • E-ISSN: 1470-112X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569783.2018.1442211
OpenAlexW2797962736
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited23

Ensuing from the concept of Documentality (Steyerl), this paper proposes to reframe documentary practices in refugee theatre. This is based on the observation that documentary theatre during the ‘refugee crisis’ in 2015 extensively negotiated the role of documents within bureaucratic performances (Jeffers). Following the notion of the document as a powerful tool of governance, this article revisits Bertolt Brecht’s ponderings about the performative ambivalence of the passport and critically discusses Peter Weiss’ ideal of an objective and juridical documentary theatre. Finally, it analyses the verbatim play ‘Asylum Dialogues’ and the documentary performance ‘Ultima Ratio’ within the framework of Documentality

Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Bureaucracy · Cognitive reframing · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Refugee · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies

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