Introduction. The Real Onstage: New Modes of Documentary Theater -- Biodramas: Vivi Tellas and the Act of Documenting Lives -- Reenactments: The Autobiographical at Play in Lola Arias -- Shadows of the Real: Teatro Línea de Sombra -- Memory Sites: Guillermo Calderón's Excavation for the Truth -- Conclusion
Summary
"Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives examines twenty-first-century documentary theater in Latin America, demonstrating how material objects and archives-photographs, videos, and documents such as witness reports, legal briefs, and letters-come to life onstage"-- Provided by publisher