Truths, Ethics, and Politics and their Relations to Verbatim Theatre

Abstract

This paper is intended to give a general view on verbatim theatre and to discuss the relation among truth, ethics and politics in verbatim theatre. The paper hypothesizes that in verbatim theatre there is a relation among truth, ethics, and politics and this relation is inevitable. The researcher follows the formalistic approach to analyze the selected text. The paper is limited to a verbatim solo play, Nothing But Nothing, written by the Iraqi playwright, Tewfik Al-Qady who was a an asylum-seeker in Australia when he wrote the play. The play is a good representative of verbatim theatre. The result of the discussion which validates the being put hypothesis comes at the end of the paper in the conclusion.