"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 and hold close as a personal favorite,
and that scholars will cite for years to come."
---David Roman, University of Southern California
What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen
attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked,
challenged and comforted? In "Utopia in Performance," Jill Dolan
traces the sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that
we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for
a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might
feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become
motivation for social change.
She traces these "utopian performatives" in a range of
performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists
Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; multicharacter solo
performances by Lily Tomlin, Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith;
the slam poetry event Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket,
a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson;
Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of
Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the book richly captures moments
of "feeling utopia" found within specific performances, it also
celebrates the broad 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.
General
| Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2005 |
| First published: |
November 2005 |
| Authors: |
Jill Dolan
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| Dimensions: |
162 x 237 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
248 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-09907-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Theatre, drama >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-472-09907-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780472099078 |
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