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You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents Divorce
You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’ Divorce is a theatre that is produced by The Civilians. It talks four real stories about the reasons to divorce what are performers’ parents’ stories. As a documentary theatre, during the process of performance, actors should restore the situations’ happen as possible. Real is the creation of the production in the documentary theatre. In this report, we will talk about the production You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’ Divorce and discuss the significance for it as a documentary theatre.

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You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’ Divorce is the production from The Civilians which is a New York based theatre company in 2009. It started staging in New York in 2011. The theatre is played by Caitlin Miller, Robbie Collier Sublett, Jennifer R. Morris, and Matthew Maher and written by Morris, Anne Kauffinan, Matthew Maher, Caitlin Miller, Janice Paran and Robbie CoUier Sublett. The direction is KaufEman. Set, Mimi Lien. The play just runs one hour. The show has only four actors; they perform on a bare
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In documentary theatre performances, the text is the core of the absolute, is also the performance of the real subject, performers, just a way of auxiliary means and make the text externalization. So, in the literature show the how to effectively use of actors to aid to strengthen the effects of literature on the audience, not allow viewers to watch again at the same time focus on deviation to the actor's performance is worth thinking about. Of course, this problem is not display on You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’

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