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  • Bowl EP
    Bowl EP

    Bowl ep

    Finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Kelly K. Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter are in love. Kelly K. Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter skate and smoke and taste one another’s fingers and snort molly and try to pick a name for their rap group. And then there’s their personal demons:...

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  • Ann, Fran, and Mary Ann
    Ann, Fran, and Mary Ann

    Ann, fran, and mary ann

    A new play by Obie-award-winning playwright Erin Courtney.

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  • Angela's Mixtape / The History of Light
    Angela's Mixtape / The History of Light

    Angela's mixtape / the history of light

    Trained in classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hip hop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis’s plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis of music alongside radical change. In Angela's Mixtape, time shifts like a mixtape,...

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  • The Javier Plays
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    The javier plays

    The Javier Plays collects three plays by Chicago-based playwright Carlos Murillo.

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  • Rude Mechs’ Lipstick Traces
    Book cover image for Rude Mechs’ Lipstick Traces ISBN: 9780981753324

    Rude mechs’ lipstick traces

    A graphic adaptation by Lana Lesley of the stage adaptation by Rude Mechs of the book by Greil Marcus.

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  • Double Feature
    Double Feature

    Double feature

    Double Feature is a dance for the page juxtaposing images from two key periods of choreographer Gwen Welliver’s artistic practice: 2013-2023 and 1991-2012. The doubled/overlapping structure of the volume creates a choreographic space in which lines, shapes, gestures, and expressions chime across ...

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  • Bentertainments
    Bentertainments

    Bentertainments

    Bentertainments collects three solo-ish works by writer and performer Eliza Bent. Bent’s works are “bent” indeed, limboing and o’erleaping theatrical conventions in genre-defying feats in the lineage of Spaulding Grey, Pee-Wee Herman, Lily Tomlin, and Fran Leibowitz. In Toilet Fire, excrement is ...

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  • The Essentialisn’t
    The Essentialisn’t

    The essentialisn’t

    Can you be Black and not perform? This is the question of The Essentialisn’t, a conceptual art installation with award-winning writer and performer Eisa Davis singing for her life in a tank of water, or at the piano in a pasture of hair. A transatlantic undrowning which moves from enslavement th...

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  • [morning//mourning]
    [morning//mourning]

    [morning//mourning]

    A cry in the dark, gentle yet penetrating…sly and sweet, wistful and winsome and altogether lovable. —New York Times mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] is a performance text for an experimental opera that tells the story of what would transpire if all humans disappeared from Earth, starting in the pres...

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  • Futures: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab Theater
    Futures: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab Theater

    Futures: an anthology of contemporary arab theater

    Futures is an anthology of six new plays written in Arabic, published here in English translation. Including five plays selected from over 500 submissions to Masrah Ensemble’s 2021 Open Call and one by Masrah Ensemble’s former playwright-in-residence, these six texts—by Yasser Abu Shaqra, Wael Ka...

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  • The 53rd State Occasional No. 3
    The 53rd State Occasional No. 3

    The 53rd state occasional no. 3

    For each edition of the Occasional, guest editors invite artists, thinkers, and members of our community to consider questions that we have and topics that move us. For Occasional No. 3, playwrights Lucas Baisch and Emma Horwitz have invited Liza Birkenmeier, Theresa Buchheister, Lisa D'Amour, do...

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  • Killing of a Gentleman Defender
    Killing of a Gentleman Defender

    Killing of a gentleman defender

    In some rooms he’s Martin. In others he’s Martín. Hired by a well-funded arts institution on Chicago’s Northside to create a show with Chicago youth about violence on the Southside, Marteen finds himself torn not only by the pronunciation of his name, but by the conflicting needs of the insti...

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  • From the Marrow
    From the Marrow

    From the marrow

    From the Marrow collects nine ritual/jazz performance texts by Sharon Bridgforth, including lovve/rituals & rage, no mo blues, dyke/warrior-prayers, blood pudding, con flama, love conjure/blues, delta dandi, River See, and dat Black Mermaid Man Lady/The Show. Rooted in blues and bristling...

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  • No President
    No President

    No president

    A small but successful security company staffed with former actors has been hired to protect a certain precious theater curtain – and whatever mystery it conceals behind it.But things are about to get out of hand as the guards find themselves infiltrated by a rival security company composed of ex...

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  • Futures: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab Theater (Arabic Edition)
    Futures: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab Theater (Arabic Edition)

    Futures: an anthology of contemporary arab theater (arabic edition)

    An anthology of six new plays written in Arabic, published here in English translation. Including five plays selected from over 500 submissions to Masrah Ensemble’s 2021 Open Call and one by Masrah Ensemble’s former playwright-in-residence, these six texts—by Yasser Abu Shaqra, Arzé Khodr, Rim Me...

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  • Meronymy
    Meronymy

    Meronymy

    Context, Synecdoche, Homonym, and Polyseme live in a house laden with clutter, but Etymology keeps bringing new deliveries for Context: a blank book, a conversation with the dentist, a key. Homonym and Polyseme sort and rearrange; they send what they can to the cloud (via helium balloon); occasio...

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  • Fucked and Jolly
    Fucked and Jolly

    Fucked and jolly

    Fucked and Jolly is a reflective compendium of artist-to-artist interviews commemorating a boffo decade of The Exponential Festival. Squinny at the banters between playwrights, choreographers, and clowns as they encounter one another’s work and discuss prevailing trends of performance in the new ...

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  • A Field of Telephones
    A Field of Telephones

    A field of telephones

    This critical reckoning by a celebrated poet re-envisions what scholarship can offer during times of crisis in the humanities and in our own lives. In his acclaimed 2016 book Diving Makes the Water Deep, Zach Savich wrote a memoir of cancer that was also a rowdy essay on teaching, the lyric, and ...

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  • Joyce Cho Plays
    Joyce Cho Plays

    Joyce cho plays

    Joyce Cho Plays collects five plays by Scott Adkins, Kelly Copper, Karinne Keithley, Sibyl Kempson, and Amber Reed. Ludicrous, lyrical, weird and loving, these plays have in common a total disregard for realistic manifestation of their extravagant, poetic scenarios. Dedicated to proposing sol...

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  • Wood Calls Out to Wood
    Wood Calls Out to Wood

    Wood calls out to wood

    Even now, Donly suggests, there may be a way of living in radical tenderness that will spell a way forward rather than the end of it all. —Kate Dakota Kremer, CultureBot Two horses in a neigh-scent relationship, a vacant treehouse in need of a tenant, and a human with a grape for a head. In Cor...

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  • 404 Not Found
    404 Not Found

    404 not found

    In Lucas Baisch’s 404 Not Found, we find ourselves at the back of a clay building that signals “stay away, stay awake.” Slack has a bad habit of holding people captive and now he’s the one shackled to a metal grate. Ro makes ends meet through drag-play for a truck-stop benefactor. She leverages h...

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  • Phonebank
    Cover image for Phonebank, isbn: 9798992283969

    Phonebank

    Talk. Transcription. Why are our conversations smarter than our scholarship? And who said that? Taking off from A Field of Telephones (published by 53rd State Press in 2025), Zach Savich's Phonebank is a book of conversation as performance, of criticism as a documentary buzz in the party line. T...

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  • Milton
    Book cover image for Milton ISBN: 9780997866421

    Milton

    Milton focuses on a performance and community engagement experiment that explores the tiny American individual living under a huge, shared sky -- all within 5 small American towns named Milton.

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  • Guía de campo de iLANDing
    Guía de campo de iLANDing

    Guía de campo de ilanding

    La Guía de campo de iLANDing contiene 75 partituras para la investigación de espacios urbanos que fueron desarrolladas a lo largo de diez años por el Laboratorio Interdisciplinario de Arte, Naturaleza y Danza. En estos laboratorios, artistas y científicos generaban metodologías híbridas para un a...

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  • The Last Thing I'll Ever Write (Part One)
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    The last thing i'll ever write (part one)

    You feel The Spiral unfurling within you. You're moving carefully, carelessly (take your pick), past a window or a tree or a person, and in the back of your head suddenly you hear the voice of the Spiral wheeze:"Onward and upward and outward, this is growth, this is evolution. You are in this cit...

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  • Another Tree Dance
    Another Tree Dance

    Another tree dance

    A poet's essay, an essay for a room, for the mouth, the hand, the ear.

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  • All These Things: A Conversation
    All These Things: A Conversation

    All these things: a conversation

    In June 2022, Sharon Bridgforth and Daniel Alexander Jones held an intimate and searching conversation about the pragmatics of making art and engaging the communities--living and ancestral--from which their work emerges. The two longtime friends reflect on Bridgforth’s bull-jean & dem/dey bac...

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  • The Immeasurable Want of Light
    Book cover image for The Immeasurable Want of Light ISBN: 9780998276335

    The immeasurable want of light

    The Immeasurable Want of Light (IWL) is a play, illustrated by famed historian and painter, Nell Painter. IWL follows Maker, a black, overweight artist, as she comes of age in an alternate universe. This is an epic play consisting of twenty-eight distinct micro plays of varying language styles an...

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  • Untitled. (1-5)
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    Untitled. (1-5)

    Winner of the Inaugural 3 Hole Press Open Call.

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  • Severed
    Book cover image for Severed ISBN: 9781732545229

    Severed

    A dark and irreverent monologue that explores what happens when all we believe in is shattered.

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  • When You Rise Up
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    When you rise up

    A collection of texts by choreographer Miguel Gutierrez, a relentlessly exploratory figure in the contemporary dance scene.

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  • Exit, Pursued
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    Exit, pursued

    A one-act play in which apologies must be made to Chekhov. A one-act play in which there is a blueprint, & that blueprint is ignored entirely. A one-act play in which a decision is made, but it is unclear by or for whom. A one-act play in which the wind has the smallest hands, no, even smalle...

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  • Life and Times: Episodes 3 & 4
    Life and Times: Episodes 3 & 4

    Life and times: episodes 3 & 4

    A musical based on the life story of a Nature Theater of Oklahoma company member, generated from recorded telephone conversations.

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  • The Mystery of the Seventeen Pilot Fish
    Book cover image for The Mystery of the Seventeen Pilot Fish ISBN: 9780991418343

    The mystery of the seventeen pilot fish

    It's the end of the end of the world and the house that holds together our universe is quietly falling apart. The Mystery of the Seventeen Pilot Fish is as much about a detective solving his final case as it is the definitive who, what, why, when, where, how & how much of just about everythin...

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  • No Dice
    Book cover image for No Dice ISBN: 9780981753317

    No dice

    A transcription of the company's triumphant four-hour dinner theater event. The dinner is a bologna sandwich and a Dr. Pepper.

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  • Particle and Wave
    Book cover image for Particle and Wave ISBN: 9781737025504

    Particle and wave

    A companion volume to Love Like Light that features a book-length conversation between Daniel Alexander Jones and poet, scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Daniel's work. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a recipient of Yale's Wyndham-Campbell Prize.

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  • The Lost Conversation
    Book cover image for The Lost Conversation ISBN: 9781732545281

    The lost conversation

    A collection of interviews with New York theater artists who have spent their lives working in and inventing the avant-garde.

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  • On Romulus, While Abel Sleeps [A Chthonic Song.]
    Book cover image for On Romulus, While Abel Sleeps [A Chthonic Song.] ISBN: 9780999724750

    On romulus, while abel sleeps [a chthonic song.]

    “I told you how I blamed you for so much,your fist blooming into a prismed silence, a spectral callfor quiet, cheering from the chorus as your fist anointsliquid mercury to my lips, the sign to all that I havesuccumbed to your weight, wordless.Brother, if you called for purple, I would give you a...

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  • Psalms for the Wreckage
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    Psalms for the wreckage

    Psalms for the Wreckage collects Joshua Young's trilogy of scripts in verse—To the Chapel of Light (Mud Luscious Press, 2012), When the Wolves Quit (Gold Wake Press, 2012), and a third, previously unpublished play in verse This is the Way to Rule—in a single edition. Exploring faith, dogma, and t...

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  • A New Practical Guide to Rhetorical Gesture and Action
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    A new practical guide to rhetorical gesture and action

    An exciting new volume based on Henry Siddons illustrated guidebook for actors originally published in 1807.

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  • Wheelchair
    Book cover image for Wheelchair ISBN: 9780998276328

    Wheelchair

    Wheelchair, by Pulitzer Prize finalist Will Arbery, follows the shifting lives of cities, apartments, objects, and a man named Gordon. Even though he's being evicted, Gordon believes himself to be one of God’s thirty-six chosen people. In this play, which teeters between comedy and tragedy, peopl...

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  • The Jim Lehrer Plays
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    The jim lehrer plays

    It's the first debate of the 2004 presidential campaign and President George W. Bush is determined to kill PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer live on stage. His opponent, Senator Kerry, agrees Lehrer should die—"Indeed, what else tonight besides the manner of Jim Lehrer's execution could be of interest t...

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  • MEDEA
    Book cover image for MEDEA ISBN: 9780991418367

    Medea

    Through a mix of sound-poems, dance, and traditional scenes, Catherine Theis attempts to jostle Medea from her traditional, male-defined narrative in this modern retelling set in the mountains of Montana. A 2015 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers finalist, MEDEA featu...

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  • Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again
    Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again

    Cooking as though you might cook again

    Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again invites us to cook with our senses and to work with the passage of time. Licht’s lyrical recipes turn our attention away from strict measurements, and remind us of the pleasures and the importance of working with what we have.

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  • Faun
    Faun

    Faun

    “The book flinches like a school of fish, a murmuration, a murder nation, my colonizer's baby handprint on a paneled wall in a farmhouse in Ovid, Michigan. The book unearths burial mounds and flattens them into fields. My ancestors removed the bones, and I removed arrowheads from the creek, and I...

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  • Crime or Emergency
    Crime or Emergency

    Crime or emergency

    A routine medical examination goes critical, spirals. Inner, personal violences take hold and multiply.

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  • Bouquet
    Book cover image for Bouquet ISBN: 9780998276359

    Bouquet

    Working between choreography, autobiography and poetry, Mariana Valencia reckons with individualism in her everyday life as a dancer as she moves across the United States, Mexico, the Balkans and into the geography of her past.

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  • Trial in the Woods
    Book cover image for Trial in the Woods ISBN: 9780999724781

    Trial in the woods

    On the morning of the 5th gibbous moon, Ovelia Otter attacks and kills Pennstin the young wolf at Bear Chondra's Mix Flow Get Up And Go exercise class. That same afternoon, Ovelia Otter is brought before a jury of her peers, Judge Bodon Boar presiding. Prosecutor Lynx believes she should be expel...

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  • Bloodletting in Minor Scales: [A Canvas in Arms.]
    Bloodletting in Minor Scales: [A Canvas in Arms.]

    Bloodletting in minor scales: [a canvas in arms.]

    A mother attempts suicide and fails. Life goes on, but as her family picks up the pieces, gratitude mixes with sadness & anger at the attempted departure. In this dream-like play in verse, blood becomes a character, hearts are fed to the stage, and Dialogue delivers a monologue as Justin trie...

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  • Love Like Light
    Book cover image for Love Like Light ISBN: 9781732545243

    Love like light

    A collected volume from an acclaimed writer and performer whose work has roots in the Black American and Queer Performance traditions, and explores ideas of the Afromystical.

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  • A Field Guide to iLANDing
    A Field Guide to iLANDing

    A field guide to ilanding

    Collects 80 investigative research scores developed in ten years of projects by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, and Dance.

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  • ASTRS
    ASTRS

    Astrs

    A pre-middle play by 53rd State's founding editor offers a roadmap to the 53rd State and to the troubled state of the present fifty.

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  • There There
    Book cover image for There There ISBN: 9780985757793

    There there

    A wildly unpredictable text about being the completely wrong person in the totally wrong place at the exact wrong time.

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  • The People’s Republic of Valerie, Living Room Edition
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    The people’s republic of valerie, living room edition

    The People’s Republic of Valerie is part boot-camp space-travel memoir, part how-to manual for the community to construct a paradise— even if only in their own minds.

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  • bull-jean & dem/dey back
    bull-jean & dem/dey back

    Bull-jean & dem/dey back

    bull-jean & dem/dey back collects two performance/novels centering Sharon Bridgforth’s southern-Black-butch-sheroe, bull-jean.First published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories chronicles the course of lovve returning in the Life-times of bull-do...

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  • The 53rd State Occasional No. 2
    The 53rd State Occasional No. 2

    The 53rd state occasional no. 2

    The second installment of the Occasional, which invites a guest editor to talk with artists and thinkers.

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  • A Map of Virtue and Black Cat Lost
    A Map of Virtue and Black Cat Lost

    A map of virtue and black cat lost

    Two plays from gifted playwright Erin Courtney, including the acclaimed, Obie award-winning A Map of Virtue.

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  • Seagull (Thinking of You)
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    Seagull (thinking of you)

    The first collection of plays by Obie award-winning Tina Satter, described as a “rising experimental star” by the NY Times.

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  • In Which _______ and Others Discover the End
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    In which _______ and others discover the end

    Emerging from a densely layered collaboration between performers, audience, visual environment, and sound, In Which _______ and Others Discover the End grapples with the current generation's collective, unconscious anxiety that the world may in the foreseeable future be uninhabitable for humans. ...

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  • Rambo Solo
    Book cover image for Rambo Solo ISBN: 9780981753331

    Rambo solo

    A continuation of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's investigation into transcription as epic theater.

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  • Your Healing is Killing Me
    Book cover image for Your Healing is Killing Me ISBN: 9780991418398

    Your healing is killing me

    Your Healing is Killing Me is a performance manifesto based on lessons learned in San Antonio free health clinics and New York acupuncture schools; from the treatments and consejos of curanderas, abortion doctors, Marxist artists, community health workers, and bourgie dermatologists. One artist's...

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  • I Understand Everything Better
    Book cover image for I Understand Everything Better ISBN: 9781737025559

    I understand everything better

    David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group’s I Understand Everything Better is a "deeply felt and deeply moving" (New York Times) performance piece, a multi-disciplinary, dance-based work that explores the impulse to report on calamity, the shimmer of attention to realms unseen, and the evidence of th...

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  • An Ice Cream Truck Stalled at the Bottom of the World
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    An ice cream truck stalled at the bottom of the world

    Pog sprawls on a couch. Gomey stands by a large globe. Pog sits at the counter. Gomey sits at a table. Two broken lawn chairs, center stage. Pog and Gomey listless in these chairs. Pog and Gomey seated, next to each other, but at different tables. Pog dressed as Punch, or Judy. Gomey dressed as J...

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  • Brief Chronicle, Books 6–8
    Brief Chronicle, Books 6–8

    Brief chronicle, books 6–8

    In Brief Chronicle, Books 6–8, Agnes Borinsky delivers a play in a single column. A history play that grounds epic themes—longing, violence and imperialism, and the bond between mother and son—in the quiet ways we talk. 

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  • Arcadia, Indiana
    Arcadia, Indiana

    Arcadia, indiana

    Arcadia, Indiana is a mutant tragedy, a five act-sonnet sequence, staged in the trash-choked landscape of pastoral fantasy. It plays with narrative, labor, sexuality, and form, starting with a murder in an Indiana steel factory and ending with the Sphinx refusing all of Oedipus' solutions to her ...

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  • Montgomery Park, or Opulence
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    Montgomery park, or opulence

    A performance text that hovers somewhere between monologue, short story and prose poem.

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  • SKiNFoLK: An American Show
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    Skinfolk: an american show

    A wide-sweeping concert/play structured in seven movements that explores the questions and limits (?) of blackness, performance, and country in a sensuous and reflective cabaret experience.

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  • Another Telepathic Thing
    Another Telepathic Thing

    Another telepathic thing

    This volume documents one of the treasures of Big Dance Theater’s original performances, supplemented by a series of interviews.

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  • Suicide Forest
    Book cover image for Suicide Forest ISBN: 9780997866476

    Suicide forest

    In 1990's Japan, a salaryman searches for self-worth, while a lonely teenage girl grapples with her sexuality in a nightmarish, male-defined society. When the two find an awkward companionship, they expose their darkest desires.

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  • The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed Keepsakes of Maery S.
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    The securely conferred, vouchsafed keepsakes of maery s.

    By combining literary and dramatic narrative with eye-witness accounts of Sasquatch encounters culled from the internet, The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed Keepsakes of Maery S. reinvents as many versions of the Frankenstein author Mary Shelley as there are definitions of the word “Gothic.” In ...

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  • The Mayor of Baltimore and Anthem
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    The mayor of baltimore and anthem

    Two companion pieces from Kristen Kosmas, whose writing invents its poetry from the blunt, the found and the discarded.

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  • A Failed Performance
    A Failed Performance

    A failed performance

    People disappear without explanation. The government takes hostages. War and death occur without reason or meaning. The cycle of poverty and deprivation proliferates. A Failed Performance is a collection of bizarre and darkly humorous plays and scenes from the Russian avant-garde writer Daniil Kh...

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  • Off the Hozzle
    Book cover image for Off the Hozzle ISBN: 9780981753379

    Off the hozzle

    A play about golf or thinking or spirit animals, or a play about the sublime fixations that technique requires.

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  • How Gross, My Séances
    How Gross, My Séances

    How gross, my séances

    How does the experience of loss alter the ways that we love? How Gross My Séances is a theatre of the imagination, and it takes place in "a world of wounds", a body of grief. The characters are precariously intertwined—memories are animate tattoos (flash sheet included), a chorus of crumbling sta...

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  • Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag
    Book cover image for Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag ISBN: 9780989739351

    Let us now praise susan sontag

    Sibyl Kempson’s Let Us Know Praise Susan Sontag is an irrational musical contemplation of collision of art and journalism.

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  • Minor Theater
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    Minor theater

    Minor Theater collects three plays by Julia Jarcho, including GRIMLY HANDSOME, which won a 2013 OBIE for Best New Play.

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  • THE HOLY GHOST PEOPLE
    THE HOLY GHOST PEOPLE

    The holy ghost people

    It's easy to dismiss the Holy Ghost People. They travel door-to-door in white sheets spouting pseudoscience about time travel, wormholes, and a new galactic gospel. Most of the town has already laughed them away. But when the Holy Ghost People start to perform "miracles," denial becomes difficult...

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  • Life and Times: Episode 2
    Book cover image for Life and Times: Episode 2 ISBN: 9780985757755

    Life and times: episode 2

    A musical based on the life story of a Nature Theater of Oklahoma company member, generated from recorded telephone conversations.

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  • The Shapes We Make With Our Bodies
    Book cover image for The Shapes We Make With Our Bodies ISBN: 9780991418336

    The shapes we make with our bodies

    Honey, our protagonist, is on the run from both her past and her present; avoiding questions about love, bodies, language, and the extents of all three. But her friends—the impish Maenads—refuse to just let her escape. The Shapes We Make With Our Bodies is a feminist, queer, maximalist piece—span...

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  • A Discourse on Method
    A Discourse on Method

    A discourse on method

    Includes the text of Levine's monologue Edition of Eight, which formed the centerpiece of Bystanders, Levine's 2015 gallery exhibition at Toronto's Gallery TPW.

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  • The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theatre
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    The invention of monsters / plays for the theatre

    Somewhere between monologue and stage direction, the one-act plays in The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theatre center around what it means to be ill-cast in life. How it feels to wear a costume, a body, a face. How sex can be both transformative and nightmarish. Each scene-poem is the ti...

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