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- Title
Telling and Showing: Witnesses Represent Sierra Leone's War Atrocities in Court and Onstage.
- Authors
Stepakoff, Shanee
- Abstract
This article discusses the performance adaptation of testimonies of witnesses from the Special Court for Sierra Leone between May 2005 and August 2007 and its psychological and political benefits. Details are given outlining the political conflicts of the region since 1989 and highlighting United Nations indictments in 2003. The personal account of one woman under the pseudonym Nancy is described as an example of the brutalities experienced by civilians of Sierra Leone. The use of drama as a means to help the witnesses express their atrocities is described and analyzed. INSET: "What Happened to Us".
- Subjects
SIERRA Leone; PERFORMANCE; WAR crime trials; ATROCITIES; WITNESSES; POLITICAL theater; SIERRA Leone politics &; government, 1961-; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2008, Vol 52, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/dram.2008.52.1.17