This article introduces the reader to the work of Australian verbatim playwright Alana Valentine and examines the ways she raises the issue of veracity or truthfulness in her 2016 verbatim play Ladies Day. The article begins with a brief description of verbatim theater and the importance of veracity in verbatim theater and research-informed theater. It then moves to an analysis of the way Valentine takes up issues of veracity in Ladies Day. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications Valentine’s work has for research-informed theater practitioners in the social sciences.
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