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Enacting Others-Cherise Smith 2011-03-07 An analysis of the complex engagements with issues of identity in the performances of the artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee. Utopia in Performance-Jill Dolan 2010-02-05 "Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish Cruising Utopia-José Esteban Muñoz 2009-11-01 The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come." ---David Román, University of pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the Southern California What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic Frank O’Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary sentiment might become motivation for social change. She traces these "utopian performatives" in a range of performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future. In a multicharacter solo performances by , Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith; the slam poetry event startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear, Muñoz contends that queerness is instead a Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket, a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson; futurity bound phenomenon, a "not yet here" that critically engages pragmatic presentism. Part manifesto, part Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the love-letter to the past and the future, Cruising Utopia argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an book richly captures moments of "feeling utopia" found within specific performances, it also celebrates the broad urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination. potential that performance has to provide a forum for being human together; for feeling love, hope, and commonality in particular and historical (rather than universal and transcendent) ways. Performing Utopia-Rachel Bowditch 2017 In her landmark study Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, Jill Dolan departed from historical writings on utopia, which suggest that social reorganization and the Utopia in Performance-Paul Henle 2003 redistribution of wealth are utopian efforts, to argue instead that utopia occurs in fragmentary "utopian moments," often found embedded within performance. While Dolan focused on the utopian performative within a theatrical context, this volume, edited by Rachel Bowditch and Pegge Vissicaro, expands her theories to Theatre and Sexuality-Jill Dolan 2010-06-30 Why is it useful to look at theatre and performance through the lens encompass performance in public life--from diasporic hip-hop battles, Chilean military parades, commemorative of sexual identity? How has commercial theatre embraced gay and lesbian work? Theatre& Sexuality introduces processions, Blackfoot powwows, and post-Katrina Mardi Gras to the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, Festas critical methods and artistic practices that link drama, theatre and performance with minority sexualities in both Juninas in Brazil, the Renaissance Fairs in Arizona, and neoburlesque competitions. How do these performances the U.S. and UK. It narrates a select history of LGBTQ theatre from the early 20th century through today. rehearse and enact visions of a utopic world? What can the lens of utopia and dystopia illuminate about the Including an extended reading of Split Britches/Bloolips' production Belle Reprieve, the book offers clear analysis, potential of performing bodies to transform communities, identities, values, and beliefs across time? Performing as well as a celebration, of LGBTQ performance. Foreword by Tim Miller Utopia not only answers these questions, but offers a diverse collection of case studies focusing on utopias, dystopias, and heterotopias enacted through the performing body.

Tactical Performance-Larry Bogad 2016-02-26 Tactical Performance tells fun, mischievous stories of underdogs speaking mirth to power - through creative, targeted activist performance in the streets of cities around the Making a Performance-Emma Govan 2007-05-14 Making a Performance traces innovations in devised world. This compelling, inspiring book also provides the first ever full-length practical and theoretical guide to performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty- this work. L.M.Bogad, one of the most prolific practitioners and scholars of this genre, shares the most effective first century. This introduction to the theory, history and practice of devised performance explores how non-violent tactics and theatrics employed by groups which have captured the public imagination in recent years. performance-makers have built on the experimental aesthetic traditions of the past. It looks to companies as Tactical Performance explores carnivalesque protest in unique depth, looking at the possibilities for direct action diverse as Australia's Legs on the Wall, Britain's Forced Entertainment and the USA-based Goat Island to show and sometimes shocking confrontation with some of the most powerful institutions in the world. It is essential how contemporary practitioners challenge orthodoxies to develop new theatrical languages. Designed to be reading for anyone interested in creative pranksterism and the global justice movement. accessible to both scholars and practitioners, this study offers clear, practical examples of concepts and ideas that have shaped some of the most vibrant and experimental practices in contemporary performance.

The Feminist Spectator as Critic-Jill Dolan 1991 Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance The Feminist Spectator as Critic-Jill Dolan 2012-10-24 This groundbreaking work in gender and performance, with a new introduction and updated bibliography

utopia-in-performance-finding-hope-at-the-theater 1/5 Downloaded from buylocal.wickedlocal.com on May 24, 2021 by guest reading for any scholar of social movements.' Mobilization 'As a guide to both theory and action, it is insightful, entertaining and indispensable.' Andrew Boyd, Wrangler-in-Chief, Beautiful Trouble 'Beautifully contextualized Finding Utopia-Paul H. Sutherland 2006 A soccer-loving brother and sister, along with the Aboriginal exchange within social movement theory, this book enlivens the debate about performative interventions into power.'Jan student that lives with their family, travel to Australia to find out if it is Utopia, and learn a lot along the way. Cohen-Cruz, Editor, Public, A Journal of Imagining America 'Electoral Guerrilla Theatre deals a refreshing wild card in the repertoire of resistance.' Baz Kershaw, Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick, and author of The Radical In Performance. In liberal democracies across the globe, where the right to vote is framed as both civil Coming of Age in Utopia-Paul M. Gaston 2010 In this exquisitely wrought memoir of a committed life, historian, right and civic duty, disillusioned creative activists run for public office on satiric, ironic and iconoclastic and civil rights activist, Paul Gaston reveals his deep roots in Fairhope---the unique Utopian community founded platforms. With little intention of "winning" in the conventional sense, they use drag, camp and stand-up comedy in 1894 by his grandfather on the shores of Mobile Bay, Alabama. Fairhope grew into a unique political, economic, to undermine the legitimacy of their opponents and sometimes the electoral system itself. This revised and and educational experiment and a center of radical economic and educational ideals. As time passed, however, updated edition of Electoral Guerrilla Theatre explores the phenomenon of the satirical election campaign, and Fairhope's radical nature went into decline. By the early 1950s, the author began to look outward for ways to take questions the purpose of such public political performances. Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic part in the coming struggle---the civil rights movement. Gaston's career at the University of Virginia, where he research, this is an entertaining and illuminating read that will be invaluable to students and scholars working taught from 1957-97, forms the core of Coming of Age in Utopia. across a variety of disciplines, including performance studies, the social sciences, cultural studies and politics. New case studies for this edition include: Reverend Billy’s run for Mayor of in 2009; Stephen Colbert’s run for President in 2012; Candidates including Superbarrio, the Best Party, Antanas Mockus, and The Feminist Spectator in Action-Jill Dolan 2013-06-21 Based on her award-winning blog, The Feminist Einstein the Dog. Spectator, Jill Dolan presents a lively feminist perspective in reviews and essays on a variety of theatre productions, films and television series—from The Social Network and Homeland to Split Britches' Lost Lounge. Demonstrating the importance of critiquing mainstream culture through a feminist lens, Dolan also offers Staging International Feminisms-E. Aston 2007-10-17 This is a landmark anthology of international feminist invaluable advice on how to develop feminist critical thinking and writing skills. This is an essential read for theatre research. A three-part structure orientates readers through Cartographies of feminist critical navigations budding critics and any avid spectator of the stage and screen. of the global arena; the staging of feminist Interventions in a range of international contexts; and Manifestos for today's feminist practitioners, activists and academics.

Time Slips-Jaclyn Pryor 2017-07-15 This bold book investigates how performance can transform the way people perceive trauma and memory, time and history. Jaclyn I. Pryor introduces the concept of "time slips," moments in Theatre & Protest-Lara Shalson 2017-08-04 How does protest engage with theatre? What does theatre have to which past, present, and future coincide, moments that challenge American narratives of racial and sexual gain from protest? Theatre and protest are often closely interlinked in the contemporary cultural and political citizenship. Framing performance as a site of resistance, Pryor analyzes their own work and that of four other landscape, and the line between protest and performance can be difficult to draw. Yet this relationship is also queer artists—Ann Carlson, Mary Ellen Strom, Peggy Shaw, and Lisa Kron—between 2001 and 2016. Pryor beset with doubts about theatre’s capacity to intervene in the social world. This fresh and insightful text thinks illuminates how each artist deploys performance as a tool to render history visible, trauma recognizable, and through the intersections and tensions between theatre and protest. Exploring the cross-fertilization of transformation possible by laying bare the histories and ongoing systems of violence woven deep into our society. international theatre and protest across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Lara Shalson illuminates how Pryor also includes a case study that examines the challenges of teaching queer time and queer performance and why these tw o are mutually influencing and enriching forms. within the academy in what Pryor calls a post-9/11 “homeland” security state. Masterfully synthesizing a wealth of research and experiences, Time Slips will interest scholars and readers in the fields of theater and performance studies, queer studies, and American studies. Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader-John Keefe 2007-11-13 Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader is an invaluable resource for students of physically orientated theatre and performance. This book aims to trace the roots and development of physicality in theatre by combining practical experience of the field with a strong The Queer Art of Failure-Judith Halberstam 2011-09-19 The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - historical and theoretical underpinning. In exploring the histories, cross-overs and intersections of physical to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that theatres, this critical Reader provides: six new, specially commissioned essays, covering each of the book’s main confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that has themes, from technical traditions to contemporary practises discussion of issues such as the foregrounding of the extensively theorized hegemony but paid little attention to counter-hegemony. Judith Halberstam proposes "low body, training and performance processes, and the origins of theatre in both play and human cognition a focus on theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and the relationship and tensions between the verbal and the physical in theatre contributions from Augusto Boal, institutions. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a Stephen Berkoff, Étienne Decroux, Bertolt Brecht, David George, J-J. Rousseau, Ana Sanchez Colberg, Michael willingness to fail and to lose one's way. Tacking back and forth between high theory and low theory, high culture Chekhov, Jeff Nuttall, Jacques Lecoq, Yoshi Oida, Mike Pearson, and Aristotle. and low culture, Halberstam looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture, avant-garde performance, and queer art. She pays particular attention to animated children's films, contending that new forms of animation, especially CGI, have generated narratives filled with unexpected encounters between the childish, A Desire Called America-Christian Haines 2019-10-01 Critics of American exceptionalism usually view it as a the transformative, and the queer. Dismantling contemporary logics of success, Halberstam demonstrates that destructive force eroding the radical energies of social movements and aesthetic practices. In A Desire Called failure sometimes offers more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being in the world. America, Christian P. Haines confronts a troubling paradox: Some of the most provocative political projects in the are remarkably invested in American exceptionalism. Riding a strange current of U.S. literature that draws on American exceptionalism only to overturn it in the name of utopian desire, Haines reveals a Electoral Guerrilla Theatre-L.M. Bogad 2016-03-17 Praise for the First Edition: 'A major contribution to tradition of viewing the United States as a unique and exemplary political model while rejecting exceptionalism’s performance studies. If cynicism and political quietism have quelled your impulse to rage against this sorry state commitments to nationalism, capitalism, and individualism. Through Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William S. of affairs, Bogad demonstrates, with wit and verve, that it is possible to expose the sham and, through a variety of Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon, Haines brings to light a radically different version of the American dream—one performative tactics, make a meaningful contribution to democracy.' Modern Drama 'A compelling and urgent in which political subjects value an organization of social life that includes democratic self-governance, egalitarian read. Bogad’s passion for the topic reminds the reader of the exhilaration of live performance and the importance cooperation, and communal property. A Desire Called America brings utopian studies and the critical discourse of of engagement in democratic life.' Theatre Journal 'Delightfully written and wonderfully provocative ... Valuable biopolitics to bear upon each other, suggesting that utopia might be less another place than our best hope for utopia-in-performance-finding-hope-at-the-theater 2/5 Downloaded from buylocal.wickedlocal.com on May 24, 2021 by guest confronting authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and a resurgent exclusionary nationalism. threats—from terrorism to pandemic—that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy—where it is vital and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus. Only by returning to the Finding Utopia-Randy McNutt 2012 In Finding Utopia, Randy McNutt sets off again to explore Ohio s forgotten principles that gave birth to our Constitution, Obama says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, nooks and byways. He begins where his last journey ended on roads less traveled finding more ghost towns, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary battlefields-turned-cornfields, and old memories that beckon him like spectral hitchhikers. On the way, he meets Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes—“waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with another cast of quirky and determined people who struggle to keep their towns on the map. them.”

Passionate Amateurs-Nicholas Ridout 2013-10-14 Passionate Amateurstells a new story about modern theater: Theatre for Peacebuilding-Nilanjana Premaratna 2018-05-05 This book contributes to key debates in the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. peacebuilding by exploring the role of theatre and art in general. Premaratna argues that the dialogical and multi- It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater—Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in Moscow—and voiced nature of theatre is particularly suited to assisting societies coming to terms with conflict and opening up then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris possibilities for conversation. These are important parts of the peacebuilding process. The book engages the of the 1960s, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of conceptual links between theatre and peacebuilding and then offers an in-depth empirical exploration of how historical materialist theater scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of three South Asian theatre groups approach peacebuilding: Jana Karaliya in Sri Lanka, Jana Sanskriti in India, and cultural studies with some of the insights developed in recent years by theorists of affect, and addresses some Sarwanam in Nepal. The ensuing reflections offer insights that are relevant to both students and practitioners fundamental questions about the social function and political potential of theater within modern capitalism. concerned with issues of peace and conflict. Passionate Amateurs argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theater is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different. In addition to its No Place Else-Eric S. Rabkin 1983 Writers have created fictions of social perfection at least since Plato’s theoretical originality, it offers a significant new reading of a major Chekhov play, the most sustained scholarly Republic. Sir Thomas More gave this thread of intellectual history a name when he called his contribution to it engagement to date with Benjamin’s “Program for a Proletarian Children’s Theatre,” the first major consideration Utopia, Greek for no place. With each subsequent author cognizant of his predecessors and subject to altered of Godard’s La chinoise as a “theatrical” work, and the first chapter-length discussion of the work of The Nature real-world conditions which suggest ever-new causes for hope and alarm, “no place” changed. The fourteen Theatre of Oklahoma, an American company rapidly gaining a profile in the European theater scene. Passionate essays presented in this book critically assess man’s fascination with and seeking for “no place.” “In discussing Amateurscontributes to the development of theater and performance studies in a way that moves beyond debates these central fictions, the contributors see ‘no place’ from diverse perspectives: the sociological, the over the differences between theater and performance in order to tell a powerful, historically grounded story psychological, the political, the aesthetic. In revealing the roots of these works, the contributors cast back along about what theater and performance are for in the modern world. the whole length of utopian thought. Each essay stands alone; together, the essays make clear what ‘no place’ means today. While it may be true that ‘no place’ has always seemed elsewhere or elsewhen, in fact all utopian fiction whirls contemporary actors through a costume dance no place else but here.”—from the Preface The Queer Dramaturgies-Alyson Campbell 2016-01-26 This international collection of essays forms a vibrant picture contributors are Eric S. Rabkin, B. G. Knepper, Thomas J. Remington, Gorman Beauchamp, William Matter, Ken of the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance. Ranging across cabaret, performance art, the Davis, Kenneth M. Roemer, William Steinhoff, Howard Segal, Jack Zipes, Kathleen Woodward, Merritt Abrash, performativity of film, drag and script-based theatre it unravels the dynamic relationship performance has with and James W. Bittner. queerness as it is presented in local and transnational contexts.

Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland-Fintan Walsh 2016-04-29 This book examines the surge of Metamorphoses-Mary Zimmerman 2002 This play is based on David R. Slavitt's translation of The queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the Metamorphoses of Ovid - Monologues. passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.

The Audacity of Hope-Barack Obama 2006-10-17 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid TDR.- 2008 vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate “In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael Kazin, Utopia Avenue-David Mitchell 2020-07-14 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The long-awaited new novel from The Washington Post In July 2004, four years before his presidency, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. New York Times Book Review Editors’ National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in Choice • “Mitchell’s rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavor is a blend of particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our Carnaby Street and Chateau Marmont.”—The Washington Post “A sheer pleasure to read . . . Mitchell’s prose is history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called “the suppler and richer than ever . . . Making your way through this novel feels like riding a high-end convertible down audacity of hope.” The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call for a different brand of politics—a politics for Hollywood Boulevard.”—Slate NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the • USA Today • The Guardian • The Independent • Kirkus Reviews • Men’s Health • PopMatters Utopia Avenue is campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of “our improbable the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967, and fronted experiment in democracy.” He explores those forces—from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money by folk singer Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss and guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet, Utopia Avenue embarked to the power of the media—that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho, a TV debut on Top of the Pops, the cusp of chart success, intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American sojourn in the Chelsea Hotel, Laurel Canyon, and San service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment. At the heart of this book is Barack Obama’s Francisco during the autumn of ’68. David Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic Avenue’s turbulent life and times; of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder; of the families we choose insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational and the ones we don’t; of voices in the head, and the truths and lies they whisper; of music, madness, and utopia-in-performance-finding-hope-at-the-theater 3/5 Downloaded from buylocal.wickedlocal.com on May 24, 2021 by guest idealism. Can we really change the world, or does the world change us? we believe in the reality of humanity's kindness and altruism, it will form the foundation for achieving true change in society, a case that Bregman makes convincingly with his signature wit, refreshing frankness, and memorable storytelling. Instant New York Times Bestseller. 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That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know Cat's Cradle-Kurt Vonnegut 2009-11-04 “A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small Times Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that works—and Vonnegut at his very best. “[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”—Harper’s connects them all will be revealed. Look for Emily St. John Mandel's new novel, The Glass Hotel, available now. Magazine “Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Atlantic Monthly

Presence and Desire-Jill Dolan 1993 Explores current controversies and significant concerns in feminist theater Cointelshow-L. M. Bogad 2011 An informative, entertaining and slightly frightening pamphlet, in which Special and performance Agent Christian White takes readers on a chilling tour of the US government's declassified surveillance documents. The script for COINTELshow has been performed by writer/activist L.M. Bogad in theatres, galleries, labour halls and community centres for the past 12 years. The pamphlet also includes a preface by Guillermo Straight White Male-Michael Peterson 1997-08 Straight White Male: Performance Art Monologues by Michael Gómez-Peña, a companion essay by Bogad about the history of domestic surveillance/harassment, and a 'how to' Peterson Mass media images of the male are central to popular culture. This book analyzes a genre known as for would-be performers of the script. "performance art monologues" as presented by white heterosexual men. Its focus is stand-up comedians and stage and screen artists, including , , Josh Kornbluth, Rob Becker, Andrew Dice Clay, Wallace Shawn, and Danny Hoch, whose acts portray and investigate power, politics, privilege, and community. Pleasure Activism-adrienne maree brown 2019-03-19 How do we make social justice the most pleasurable Solo work has become the dominant form in performance art, and stand-up comedy has returned to the front row human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything of popular culture. While apparently free of many traditional theatrical trappings, the monologue amplifies the less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "Pleasure power that performers wield over their audiences. The chief monologuists examined here are Gray and Bogosian. Activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another Gray's minimalist autobiographical storytelling is quite different from Bogosian's impersonation of dozens of form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, including Audre Lourde's invitation to use the erotic as fictional characters in a single show. Their performances (and the books, recordings, and feature films that re- power and Toni Cade Bambara's exhortation that we make the revolution irresistible, the contributors to this market them) have marked these two as the leading practitioners of their own subgenres of monologic volume take up the challenge to rethink the ground rules of activism. Writers including Cara Page of the Astraea performance art. This fascinating examination connects performance studies with the monologue traditions in Lesbian Foundation For Justice, Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of This Body Is Not an Apology, and author Alexis theater history, with such contemporary cultural activities as the men's movement, and with the current interest Pauline Gumbs cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and in queer theory and gender studies. Acknowledging the complex politics of all performance, whether avant-garde drugs—they create new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a or popular, this first book-length critique of heterosexuality, masculinity, and whiteness in solo performance complex politics of its own. Building on the success of her popular Emergent Strategy, brown launches a new asserts that straight white male monologues create an illusion of community rather than engaging with the series of the same name with this volume, bringing readers books that explore experimental, expansive, and politics of identity as a social fact. Michael Peterson is a professor in the department of theater and dance at innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today. Books that find the opportunity in every crisis! Millikin University.

Utopia as Method-R. Levitas 2013-07-25 Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book Humankind-Rutger Bregman 2020-06-02 From New York Times bestselling author of Utopia for Realists comes a rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary "bold" (Daniel H. Pink) and "extraordinary" (Susan Cain) argument that humans thrive in a crisis and that our Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures. innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term success on the planet. If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the A Farewell to Arms, Legs & Jockstraps-Diane K. Shah 2020-04-28 “Diane Shah was a boots-on-the-ground laws that shape our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Pinker, the roots of this belief have sunk deep female sports reporter in the Cro-Magnon 1970s and brings it all back in this hilarious, well-crafted book.” —Dan into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed primarily by self-interest. Shaughnessy, Boston Globe sports columnist and New York Times bestselling author Strike fast, strike But what if it isn't true? International bestseller Rutger Bregman provides new perspective on the past 200,000 hard—whether it’s scoring a homerun or front-page news, Diane K. Shah, former sports columnist, knows how to years of human history, setting out to prove that we are hardwired for kindness, geared toward cooperation grab the best story. In her memoir A Farewell to Arms, Legs, and Jockstraps, follow Diane’s escapades, from rather than competition, and more inclined to trust rather than distrust one another. In fact this instinct has a interviews with a tipsy Mickey Mantle, to sneaking into off-limits Republican galas, dining with Frank Sinatra, firm evolutionary basis going back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the flying a plane with Dennis Quaid, and countless other adventures where she wields her tape recorder and a solidarity in the aftermath of the Blitz, the hidden flaws in the Stanford prison experiment to the true story of twin tireless drive for more. From skirting KGB agents while covering the Cold War Olympics to hunting down the brothers on opposite sides who helped Mandela end apartheid, Bregman shows us that believing in human three mechanical sharks starring in Jaws, Diane’s experiences are filled with real heart and a tongue-in-cheek generosity and collaboration isn't merely optimistic—it's realistic. Moreover, it has huge implications for how attitude. An insightful look into the difficulties of navigating a male-dominated profession, A Farewell to Arms, society functions. When we think the worst of people, it brings out the worst in our politics and economics. But if Legs, and Jockstraps offers rich retellings and behind-the-scenes details of stories of a trailblazing career and the utopia-in-performance-finding-hope-at-the-theater 4/5 Downloaded from buylocal.wickedlocal.com on May 24, 2021 by guest prejudices facing female sportswriters during the sixties and seventies. “Impossibly elegant, and the most fun any communist society, and the acceptance that the division between work and leisure cannot be overcome. To ever. The only thing better than reading Diane K. Shah’s memoir was, I suppose, living it.” —Sally Jenkins, create a new world, we must first change the way we envision the world. Jameson’s text is ideally placed to columnist and feature writer, Washington Post “Diane’s memoir is just like her columns—smart, funny, trigger a debate on the alternatives to global capitalism. In addition to Jameson’s essay, the volume includes enlightening—just like her. Until reading it, I never really knew all the challenges she dealt with. She broke responses from philosophers and political and cultural analysts, as well as an epilogue from Jameson himself. ground but never acted like it. I was lucky to work with the first female sports columnist in the country.” —Ken Many will be appalled at what they will encounter in these pages—there will be blood! But perhaps one has to Gurnick, LA Dodgers correspondent for MLB.com spill such (ideological) blood to give the Left a chance. Contributing are Kim Stanley Robinson, Jodi Dean, Saroj Giri, Agon Hamza, Kojin Karatani, Frank Ruda, Alberto Toscano, Kathi Weeks, and Slavoj Žižek.

An American Utopia-Fredric Jameson 2016-07-12 Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge to

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