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Title: Out from Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists by Lenora Champagne ISBN: 1-55936-009-7 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: October, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Phenomenal Feminist and Theatre Text
Comment: I first encountered "Out From Under" in a feminist theatre theory class. Since then I have read these performance texts at least a dozen times and love them more with every reading. Lenora Champagne has compiled an exceptional collection of performance texts by women from many different origins and political agendas. She includes in this compilation Karen Finley's "The Constant State of Desire," Holly Hughes' "World without End," Lenny Sack's "The Survivor and the Translator," and Beatrice Roth's "The Father." Every piece works together to illustrate the work from a highly marginalized group that must be brought to the surface for the political theatre to continue. Moreover, many of the women in this book have other books of essays, stories, and poems. After reading Karen Finley's "The Constant State of Desire," I have become obsessed with her work and respect her for her incredible achievements to the theatre and feminist world. While I read this book in a special topics class, it should be an imperative part of any introductory theatre class and a must-read for all theatre practitioners.
Rating: 3
Summary: Includes 5-star pieces and 1-star pieces
Comment: I enjoyed reading the selection that Champagne has assembled, if only for the nostalgic look back at the eighties and its plethora of strong women performance artists. Having seen several of the women anthologized here perform live, it was a treat to read *some* of the pieces again.
I say some of the pieces because not all of them have aged well, and not all of them were very strong to begin with. Karen Finley is always a pleasure to read, as is Laurie Anderson, but the Anderson piece was far too short. I also found the Hughes piece strong, and I also enjoyed the Leeny Sack-- but in the rest of the book I found the selections either not the quality I know that artist(s) can produce, or seemed to be people whose work was not to my taste from the beginning.
I suspect that much of what's contained here isn't anthologized anywhere else, so if your interest lies in this direction, it's still a good book to buy. My rating reflects the unevenness of the selections rather than the value of the book itself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Helped me with my MA degree
Comment: As an MA candidate for a degree in English, I was assigned a thesis. I had a creative option but none of the genres were "speaking" to me until I picked this text up. Incredible plays. The playwrights speak to the audience and treat you like a friend they are sharing secrets with! Hughes's "Getting Over Tom" is wonderful. It is a woman's must have book. It also helped me write my own performance play for my MA thesis.
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Title: Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century by Jo Bonney ISBN: 1559361557 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Dread: Poems by Ai ISBN: 0393041433 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance by Holly Hughes, David Roman ISBN: 0802135706 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler by Holly Hughes ISBN: 0802133339 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro ISBN: 019515147X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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