Handing over the power of the pen

Playwrights are doing less writing and more listening as they rework true-life stories from gay parenting to race riots.
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Playwrights are doing less writing and more listening as they rework true-life stories from gay parenting to race riots.


The memoir-novel and the general blurring of fiction and non-fiction into a genre inelegantly called ‘faction’ have dominated the literary scene in recent years. Now verbatim theatre is doing to the stage what faction has done to the page.

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Troy Nankervis
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Troy Nankervis is an ArtsHub journalist from Melbourne. Follow him on twitter @troynankervis