Performing Injustice: Human Rights and Verbatim Theatre

The ‘Minutes of Evidence’ project: Creating collaborative fields of engagement with the past, present and future

“…It is now widely acknowledged that different fictional and non-fictional representations of suffering and injustice, from memoirs to feature films to documentary films, offer different ways of connecting with such experiences. 24 As Derbyshire and Hodson note, 25 at a time when there is a generalised concern with the 'indifference' or 'compassion fatigue' of global audiences to stories of suffering, 26 mediums such as theatre have the ability to successfully engage spectators on an emotional and affective level. Theatre and performance provide a new way for audiences to relate to events, stories and experiences, one which foregrounds emotion, imagination and affect.…”