The Bridge: The Political Possibilities of Intergenerational Verbatim Theater

This article introduces the reader to the work of Australian verbatim theater artists Donna Jackson, Bindi Cole Chocka, and James Henry. It describes the artists’ remount of Vicki Reynolds’s verbatim play The Bridge, which tells the story of the collapse of the Melbourne West Gate Bridge in 1970. I...

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Published inQualitative inquiry Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 833 - 839
Main Author Goldstein, Tara
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.2020
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Artists
Bridge failure
Ethnography
Music
Theater
Theaters & cinemas
Working class
methods of inquiry
methodologies
ethnographies
critical pedagogy
performance ethnography
pedagogy
arts-based inquiry
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Summary:This article introduces the reader to the work of Australian verbatim theater artists Donna Jackson, Bindi Cole Chocka, and James Henry. It describes the artists’ remount of Vicki Reynolds’s verbatim play The Bridge, which tells the story of the collapse of the Melbourne West Gate Bridge in 1970. I discuss the remount of the play as an intergenerational verbatim theater project which not only tells an important story from Australian working-class history to new audiences who haven’t heard it before, but also deepens the story through additional research and music. I also discuss the play as a project that uses political truths from the past to do new political work in the present.
ISSN:1077-8004
1552-7565
DOI:10.1177/1077800419843947