Veracity in Alana Valentine’s Ladies Day: Implications for Research-Informed Theater

This article introduces the reader to the work of Australian verbatim playwright Alana Valentine and examines the ways she raises the issue of veracity or truthfulness in her 2016 verbatim play Ladies Day. The article begins with a brief description of verbatim theater and the importance of veracity...

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Published inQualitative inquiry Vol. 23; no. 6; pp. 438 - 444
Main Author Goldstein, Tara
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2017
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Credibility
Ethnography
LGBTQ studies
Queer theory
Sexes
Sexuality
Social sciences
Theater
Valentine, Alana
LGBTQ issues and theory
methods of inquiry
methodologies
gender and sexuality
ethnographies
performance ethnography
arts-based inquiry
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Summary:This article introduces the reader to the work of Australian verbatim playwright Alana Valentine and examines the ways she raises the issue of veracity or truthfulness in her 2016 verbatim play Ladies Day. The article begins with a brief description of verbatim theater and the importance of veracity in verbatim theater and research-informed theater. It then moves to an analysis of the way Valentine takes up issues of veracity in Ladies Day. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications Valentine’s work has for research-informed theater practitioners in the social sciences.
ISSN:1077-8004
1552-7565
DOI:10.1177/1077800416673661