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A Phenomenal Feminist and Theatre Text,
This review is from: Out from Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists (Paperback)
I first encountered "Out From Under" in a feminist theatre theory class. Since then I have read these performance texts at least a dozen times and love them more with every reading. Lenora Champagne has compiled an exceptional collection of performance texts by women from many different origins and political agendas. She includes in this compilation Karen Finley's "The Constant State of Desire," Holly Hughes' "World without End," Lenny Sack's "The Survivor and the Translator," and Beatrice Roth's "The Father." Every piece works together to illustrate the work from a highly marginalized group that must be brought to the surface for the political theatre to continue. Moreover, many of the women in this book have other books of essays, stories, and poems. After reading Karen Finley's "The Constant State of Desire," I have become obsessed with her work and respect her for her incredible achievements to the theatre and feminist world. While I read this book in a special topics class, it should be an imperative part of any introductory theatre class and a must-read for all theatre practitioners.
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Includes 5-star pieces and 1-star pieces,
By frumiousb "frumiousb" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Out from Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists (Paperback)
I enjoyed reading the selection that Champagne has assembled, if only for the nostalgic look back at the eighties and its plethora of strong women performance artists. Having seen several of the women anthologized here perform live, it was a treat to read *some* of the pieces again.I say some of the pieces because not all of them have aged well, and not all of them were very strong to begin with. Karen Finley is always a pleasure to read, as is Laurie Anderson, but the Anderson piece was far too short. I also found the Hughes piece strong, and I also enjoyed the Leeny Sack-- but in the rest of the book I found the selections either not the quality I know that artist(s) can produce, or seemed to be people whose work was not to my taste from the beginning. I suspect that much of what's contained here isn't anthologized anywhere else, so if your interest lies in this direction, it's still a good book to buy. My rating reflects the unevenness of the selections rather than the value of the book itself.
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Helped me with my MA degree,
By Margie Koch (Cullowhee, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Out from Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists (Paperback)
As an MA candidate for a degree in English, I was assigned a thesis. I had a creative option but none of the genres were "speaking" to me until I picked this text up. Incredible plays. The playwrights speak to the audience and treat you like a friend they are sharing secrets with! Hughes's "Getting Over Tom" is wonderful. It is a woman's must have book. It also helped me write my own performance play for my MA thesis.
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Holly Hughes was born in 1955 in Saginaw, Michigan, "the navy bean capital of the world." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, United States, San Francisco, Hedda Nussbaum, Instant Theatre, Jo-deen Windy Thompson, White House New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Rachel Rosenthal (Art + Performance) by Rachel Rosenthal in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Shock Treatment by Karen Finley on page 56, and Back Matter
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank on page 62
- For Colored Girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf: A Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange on page 32
- Robert Rauschenberg by Nan Rosenthal on page 13
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- American Avant-Garde Theatre (Theatre Production Studies) by Arnold Aronson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture by James E. Young in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification by Victoria Pitts in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A History of Asian American Theatre (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by Esther Kim Lee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Contemporary Plays by Women of Color: An Anthology by Kathy A. Perkins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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