History & Genre
The three dominant genres of Headphone Verbatim.
What are social crisis play, social justice play, and social portrait play?
The first device used to play tracks for headphone verbatim.
What is a minidisc player/recorder?
A form of theatre firmly predicted upon the taping and subsequent transcriptions of interviews done with ordinary people in the context of research into a particular region, subject area, issue, event, or a combination of these things.
What is Verbatim Theatre?
The binary thought process that Headphone Verbatim may toe the line of.
What is active/passive spectatorship?
Blythe ans Oades introduced these philosophies and practices to verbatim theatre.
What are scenes with several speakers, plays staged in other languages than English, and setting interviewee's speech to music?
A technique that has a further advantage beyond television.
What is recorded delivery.
Involves several collaborators taping multiple interviews, then performing the interviews back to the interviewees and their associates.
What is heritage theatre?
True or False. In-ear causes the audience to listen differently.
True. This phenomenon encourages a heightened state of listening.
The originating location of headphone verbatim.
What is Mark Wing-Davey's Drama Without Paper Workshop at the London Actor's Centre in 2001?
A unique consideration given to staging and choreography in early headphone verbatim pieces.
Unique characteristics of headphone verbatim theatre that go beyond replication.
What is coughs, clapping, pauses, and repetition.
It's objective! What do you think?