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Utopia in performance: finding hope at the theater.

2005 the University of Michigan ;Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005. ;ISBN: 9780472099078 ;ISBN: 9780472025572 ;ISBN: 0472099078 ;ISBN: 0472025570 ;ISBN: 0472069071 ;ISBN: 9780472069071 ;EISBN: 0472025570 ;EISBN: 9780472025572 ;DOI: 10.3998/mpub.119520 ;OCLC: 923501255 ;LCCallNum: PN1936

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  • Title:
    Utopia in performance: finding hope at the theater.
  • Author: Dolan, Jill
  • Subjects: American ; American Theatre ; DRAMA ; Drama and the Theatre ; English Literature ; History and criticism ; Hope/Optimism ; Humanism ; Language & Literature ; Monodrama ; Monodrama - History and criticism ; Monodramas ; One-person shows (Performing arts) ; Psychological aspects ; Theater ; Theater--Psychological aspects ; Twentieth Century ; Utopianism/Dystopianism
  • Description: 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.
  • Publisher: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
  • Creation Date: 2010
  • Format: 248
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780472099078
    ISBN: 9780472025572
    ISBN: 0472099078
    ISBN: 0472025570
    ISBN: 0472069071
    ISBN: 9780472069071
    EISBN: 0472025570
    EISBN: 9780472025572
    DOI: 10.3998/mpub.119520
    OCLC: 923501255
    LCCallNum: PN1936
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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