Truths, ethics, and politics and their relations to verbatim theatre

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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.