"Guzzetta’s history is an important study, introducing English-language readers to a genre that changes the shape of our conversations around historiographic theater and theater of the real. Unpacking a form with the intimate storytelling of Spalding Gray and the fearless national soul-searching of the best documentary theater, The Theater of Narration shows us new ways of feeling the past through performance." —Ryan Claycomb, author of Lives in Play: Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage
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"Theater and history come together in this intriguing study of a unique Italian performance art in which a single storyteller recounts a moment of history from the perspective of ordinary people. Guzzetta traces the theater of narration from its origins to the first performances in the 1980s and across two generations of narrators. She explicates how its ethnographic and dialogic elements weave personal histories into a tapestry depicting a common, collective past." —Antonio Scuderi, author of Dario Fo: Framing, Festival, and the Folkloric Imagination— -