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Articles by Barry Freeman

Canadian Theatre Review, 2018

Much recent theatre has been interested in fudging the lines between truth and fiction. This arti... more Much recent theatre has been interested in fudging the lines between truth and fiction. This article explores the overlap between recent trends that deconstruct our sense of what reality is and the parallel political problem that has been described as “post-truth”: the notion that, in the absence of a clear way of verifying what is objectively true, people can simply declare things to be true, regardless of the evidence that supports it.

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Canadian Theatre Review, 2018

Much recent theatre has been interested in fudging the lines between truth and fiction. This arti... more Much recent theatre has been interested in fudging the lines between truth and fiction. This article explores the overlap between recent trends that deconstruct our sense of what reality is and the parallel political problem that has been described as “post-truth”: the notion that, in the absence of a clear way of verifying what is objectively true, people can simply declare things to be true, regardless of the evidence that supports it.

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