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American Garden Writing

Marranca, Bonnie

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Slice of Life

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Theatre of the Ridiculous

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Dramas & Plays

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"The best kind of subjectivity -- enlightening to others and, in every sense, encouraging." -- Stanley KauffmannA collection of eighteen essays articulating a contemporary poetics of text and performance against a background of American culture, Theatrewritings moves easily from avant-garde groups (Mabou Mines, The Wooster Group, Ontological-Hysteric Theater) to writers as diverse as Sam Shepard, Lee Breuer, and Lillian Hellman, and to popular singers such as Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland.

Theatre Writings

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Performing Arts

In a critical field that is itself burdened with special interests, she is a free spirit . . . . informative about a surprising diversity of writers. --Mel Gussow, New York Times.

Theatrewritings

Humor & Entertainment

PAJ Publications

"I have always wondered what Gertrude Stein meant when she called a play a landscape. The marvel of her image revealed itself decade by decade as I discovered how essential landscape, field, and geography are in the conceptual vocabulary of American performance, and the extent to which the idea of nature (or the real) was transposed into a description of performance space by avant-garde artists. That this space would also be a spiritual space accounts for the emphasis on mind and perception in American performance whose subject has always been vision, or revelation."--from the IntroductionHow do geography and climate influence a work? How is narrative embedded in landscape? What is the ecology of an image? In Ecologies of Theater, Bonnie Marranca elaborates a new perspective on performance that links ecology and aesthetics. She writes of dramaturgy as an ecology in the work of Robert Wilson, and the mus/ecology of John Cage; the autobiology of Rachel Rosenthal and spiritual style of Maria Irene Fornes and Meredith Monk; and the landscape histories of Heiner Müller and Isak Dinesen. In more than two dozen essays, Marranca considers theater history and the modernist heritage in the context of landscape, culture, and art.

Ecologies of Theater

This collection of essays elaborates a new perspective on performance that links ecology and art practice. From the play of landscape in Gertrude Stein’s theatre and the mus/ecology of John Cage, to Robert Wilson's dramaturgy as an ecology. Other essays cover Meredith Monk, Maria Irene Fornes, Spalding Gray, Heiner Müller, world events and cultural forms of expression.

Conversations with Meredith Monk offers a richly detailed portrait of the internationally renowned composer, performer, director, and filmmaker who has helped to create the new vocabularies of contemporary performance. Reflecting on her creative life in music, performance, and film over her entire career, Monk offers fascinating insights into how she works, the questions she asks herself as an artist, and the deeply held personal views of art practice as spiritual practice.

Conversations with Meredith Monk (Performance Ideas)

Individual Artists

"Meredith Monk is one of the most important composers alive. I remember hearing herDolmen Musicas a teenager. It most definitely provided me with one of my musical DNAs... As a person she is a fierce spirit, optimistic, spiritual, and soulful."--Björk "If Monk is seeking a place in the classical firmament, classical music has much to learn from her. She conveys a fundamental humanity and humility that is rare in new-music circles."--Alex Ross,The New Yorker "Meredith Monk has given new voice to the spirit, knit the word together with her universal vision to music, and balanced movement and stillness in ways that illuminate and transform us all. Eternity will never be the same."--Pico Iyer This expanded edition ofConversations with Meredith Monkoffers a fascinating portrait of the internationally renowned composer, performer, director, and filmmaker, from her early years to the present. It has now been updated to include discussion of her latest music-theatre work,Cellular Songs, and a work-in-progress,Indra's Net, in addition to the recent revival of her operaAtlas at the Los Angeles Philharmonic--a work that theNew York Timescritic called "her masterpiece and&nbsp;one of the defining operatic experiments of the 20th century"--and the showing of the remastered film of Monk's great workQuarry. The five long conversations that comprise the volume part of PAJ's "Performance Ideas" series, generate invaluable insights into artistic process, the human voice, interrelationships of time, space, and music, and the complexity of artistic legacies. What is a "contemporary" work? How does an artwork retain its integrity of form over time? In these deeply engaging conversations, Monk speaks in great detail on her creation of music-theatre works, operas, and films, reflecting on the large-cast theatrical works and the more recent poetically distilled, abstract pieces. In her preface to the new edition, "Performance as a Life Science," Bonnie Marranca writes: "Now, against the background of lifein extremis, it is evident that Monk had already acknowledged both the always unknown future and the resilience of human beings. For decades her body of work has been rooting itself in the recurrent themes of spiritual quest (Songs of Ascension), healing (The Politics of Quiet), compassion (mercy), plague (Book of Days), fragility of life (impermanence), cultural identity (Ellis Island),historical trauma (Quarry), ecology (On Behalf of Nature), and community (Cellular Songs)." The volume also includes an eight-page color insert.

Conversations with Meredith Monk (Expanded Edition) (Performance Ideas)

In Timelines: Writings and Conversations, Bonnie Marranca turns to far-ranging subjects that include the catastrophic imagination, landscape and writing, performance drawing, cultural history, as well as issues of emotion, beauty, and the spiritual in art. Her perspectives on performance, visual arts, media, and drama in the work of Joan Jonas, Caryl Churchill, Raimund Hoghe, Dick Higgins, and Meredith Monk highlight the artist in the world and artistic process. Includes personal reflections on the loss of influential artists Carolee Schneemann, Sam Shepard, and Maria Irene Fornes.

Timelines: Writings and Conversations

History & Criticism

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American Garden Writing

Slice of Life

Theatre of the Ridiculous

Theatre Writings

Theatrewritings

Ecologies of Theater

Ecologies of Theater

Conversations with Meredith Monk (Performance Ideas)

Conversations with Meredith Monk (Expanded Edition) (Performance Ideas)

Timelines: Writings and Conversations