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Plays with Films (Paperback)
Richard Foreman; Introduction by George Hunka
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Plays with Films brings together texts of the final three
productions of Richard Foreman s Ontological-Hysteric Theater at
St. Mark s Church-in-the-Bowery: Zomboid (2006), Wake Up Mr. Sleepy
Your Unconscious Mind is Dead (2007), and Deep Trance Behavior in
Potatoland (2008). In these three exhilarating and challenging
works, Foreman turns to a meditation on the mechanical and digital
reproductions of screen images within the discipline of theater,
and thereby recalibrates and expands the potential relationship we
can have with the live art that is theater. Extending the model of
theater as a reverberating machine, Foreman s use of film in these
plays is intimately integrated into the complex network of impulse
generators, creating an unprecedented experience of
multi-dimensional scriptural space, a new kind of total theater
that effectively recharges and redirects the issues of
consciousness he has been exploring with indefatigable intensity
since the establishment of his theater in 1968. The bodied reality
of theatrical experience, and the recognition of unconsciousness
within that experience, becomes more fraught with peril in today s
screened world. These plays, originally conceived as his final
theater works (though he did change his mind), engage in ways that
continue his ambition to upend habitual thinking and may prove
transformative for the individual s ability to interpret and
understand the threats of deadening conformity and loss of identity
through the new digital culture. Employing an innovative
typographical presentation, Plays with Films demonstrates how
America s most daring theater artist alchemizes reproducible and
non-reproducible reality into a unique contemplation of the project
of self-construction in the 21st century.
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Richard Foreman
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