Video & Performance Art, General & Miscellaneous Performing Arts
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Overview
The "Critical Performance" series pairs a performance artist or playwright with a critical theorist in a dialogue aimed to elucidate both disciplines. This volume focuses on Deb Margolin, one of the three founding members of the American performance troupe Split Britches.Editorials
Library Journal
Performance art is an ephemeral art form. The "play" can differ greatly from performance to performance, depending upon the interpretation of the moment by the artist. Nevertheless, Margolin, a founding member of the performance group Split Britches, has described herself as more of a playwright who chose to perform her own work than as a performance artist. This collection of seven works, along with commentary, provides a window into her creativity. The intense visual nature of this type of theater, which includes interaction with the audience, requires that the written form communicates the intent of the playwright even more clearly than a typical play. Some of Margolin's work contains sufficient stage direction and detail for the reader to grasp the work, and some does not. For theater collections only.--J. Sara Paulk, Coastal Plain Regional Lib., Tifton, Ambrose, GA Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.Book Details
Published
July 1, 1999
Publisher
Continuum International Publishing Group
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780304703197