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PLEASANTVILLE Jacob Burns Film Center "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage," documentary by Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen.
Ms. Schulman, 43, said she was interested in exploring how McCullers created her art but did not want to make "Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate)" a stage documentary.
"The play is a mix of fact and fiction, in a mock stage documentary style, about a character based on me," said Mr. Hwang, 50.
For better or worse -- but mostly for better -- we're living in the age of the stage documentary.
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The intent behind these stage documentaries is to inform audiences on the truth behind significant events while appearing to be more entertaining than actual newsroom accounts.
This is a staged documentary with people posing for staged shots like portrait photos, standing still just long enough to look uncomfortable.
A true-life jungle horror story redolent with allusions to Conrad, the book charged Chagnon with grave misdeeds: not just fomenting violence but also fabricating data, staging documentary films and, most sensational, participating in a biomedical expedition that may have caused or worsened a measles epidemic that resulted in hundreds of Yanomami deaths.
Who remembers last spring's "American Cannibal," a partly staged documentary in which producers convince reality show contestants they'll have to eat their opponents, or "Surviving Eden," in which an obese reality show winner gets a makeover but is still miserable?
Absolutely, and that is also the subject of Hugo, as well as The Artist – which is destined to be the first silent to win an Oscar since 1931 when the cinematography award went to FW Murnau's Tabu, a staged documentary co-directed by Robert Flaherty.
A more uncompromising method of bringing social issues to the stage was Documentary Theatre, or the Theatre of Fact.
Meanwhile, Beyond the Lighted Stage, a documentary about the deathless Canadian prog trio Rush, deservedly won the audience award at this years' Tribeca film festival.
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