What You See Is What You Get.(director Jeremy Weller puts real people, not actors, on stage)

Director Jeremy Weller lets the traumatized tell their own stories

"What interests me is communicating the blood and guts of real life," says Jeremy Weller, the 41-year-old British director who specializes in staging real-life stories told by real people. "Sometimes actors can be a smokescreen. It's a tragic contradiction, in a way."

Since 1989, Weller's Edinburgh-based company, the Grassmarket Project, has used factual testimonies to create documentary theatre on subjects more often seen on the nightly news than in a theatrical setting. But unlike, ...

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