What is it about?
How strictly is the boundary between autobiography and fiction policed in the 'fake autobiographical' plays of Yama Theatre Productions? Why do we care when a fictional character dies? And how real is our own experience? This article explores the contract drawn between performers and their audiences, and the ways in which this can bring about radical uncertainty.
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Why is it important?
This article pulls together several theoretical position that are seldom (never?) applied to theatrical performances.
Perspectives
This article is written from the inside, by the author/performer himself, and therefore offers a unique perspective on this issue.
Simon Lovat
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This page is a summary of: Whose life is it anyway? Practice-based research into performed fictional-autobiography and the paradox of fiction, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, April 2019, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/jwcp.12.1-2.61_1.
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