{"product_id":"insecurity-2","title":"Insecurity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe early years of the twenty-first century have witnessed a proliferation of non-fiction, reality-based performance genres, including documentary and verbatim theatre, site-specific theatre, autobiographical theatre, and immersive theatre. \u003ci\u003eInsecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real \u003c\/i\u003ebegins with the premise that although the inclusion of real objects and real words on the stage would ostensibly seem to increase the epistemological security and documentary truth-value of the presentation, in fact the opposite is the case.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary audiences are caught between a desire for authenticity and immediacy of connection to a person, place, or experience, and the conditions of our postmodern world that render our lives insecure. The same conditions that underpin our yearning for authenticity thwart access to an impossible real. As a result of the instability of social reality, the audience, Jenn Stephenson explains, is unable to trust the mechanisms of theatricality. The by-product of theatres of the real in the age of post-reality is insecurity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Jenn Stephenson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575313858742,"sku":"9781487501853","price":56.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781487501853.jpg?v=1727457616","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/insecurity-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}