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--- malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:46:50 -0500
> Subject: AVANT-GARDE / NEW DOWNTOWN NOW: An
> Anthology of New Theater from
>  Downtown New York
> From: Stacy Lienemann <lieneman-AT-umn.edu>
> To: <ma-AT-panix.com>
> 
> Ten experimental new plays from New York's vibrant
> downtown theater scene.
> 
> NEW DOWNTOWN NOW: An Anthology of New Theater from
> Downtown New York
> Mac Wellman and Young Jean Lee, editors
> Introduction by Jeffrey M. Jones
> University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2006
> ISBN 0-8166-4730-5 | hardcover | $75.00
> ISBN 0-8166-4731-3 | paperback | $24.95
> 
> New Downtown Now brings together ten new works that
> exemplify the
> playfulness, excitement, and possibilities of the
> theater. Characterized by
> fragmenting structure, hypnotic rhythms,
> kaleidoscopic imagery,
> unpredictable characters, and lyrical language,
> these plays resemble puzzle> s
> from which the writers are teasing revelations.
> Though disparate in subject
> matter and style, with characters ranging from a
> sushi chef to a soldier an> d
> settings from a taxicab to a live television
> broadcast, these highly
> original plays share a commitment to formal
> experimentation that places the> m
> beyond the psychological clichés of the majority
> and the cold condescension
> of postmodernism.
> 
> The anthology includes Interim by Barbara Cassidy;
> Tragedy: a tragedy by
> Will Eno; Nine Come by Elana Greenfield; Sachiko and
> Enoshima Island by
> Madelyn Kent; The Appeal by Young Jean Lee; The
> Vomit Talk of Ghosts by
> Kevin Oakes; Ajax (por nobody) by Alice Tuan;
> Apparition: An Uneasy Play of
> the Underknown by Anne Washburn; Demon Baby by Erin
> Courtney.
> 
> =B3In an age dead set against artistic experiment
> and community, Mac Wellman
> and Young Jean Lee provide a thrilling forum for
> both to thrive. The plays
> collected in this indispensable anthology offer
> proof that, under the
> mainstream radar, new visions of theatrical truth
> are not only fugitively
> emerging but flourishing in their enviable
> freedom.=B2 =8BCharles McNulty
> 
> For more information, including the table of
> contents, visit the book=B9s
> webpage:
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/W/wellman_new.html
> 
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