Bonnie Marranca

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Conversations with Meredith Monk (Expanded Edition)
Conversations with Meredith Monk (Expanded Edition)
Bonnie Marranca
Paperback
$20.00
Ecologies of Theater
Ecologies of Theater
Bonnie Marranca
Paperback
$20.95
New Europe
New Europe
Bonnie Marranca
Paperback
$22.95
Performance Histories
Performance Histories
Bonnie Marranca
Paperback
$18.95
Plays for the End of the Century
Plays for the End of the Century
Bonnie Marranca
Paperback
$20.95
Theatrewritings
Theatrewritings
Bonnie Marranca
Paperback
$15.95
Timelines
Timelines
Bonnie Marranca
Paperback
$19.95
Bonnie Marranca

Conversations with Meredith Monk (Expanded Edition)

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NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE DISCUSSION OF HER LATEST MUSIC-THEATRE WORK  

This expanded edition of Conversations with Meredith Monk offers a fascinating portrait of the internationally renowned composer, performer, director, and filmmaker, from her early years to the present.  

The five long conversations that comprise the volume part of PAJ’s “Performance Ideas” series generate invaluable insights into artistic process, the human voice, interrelationships of time, space, and music, and the complexity of artistic legacies. 

What is a “contemporary” work? How does an artwork retain its integrity of form over time? In these deeply engaging conversations, Monk speaks in great detail on her creation of music-theatre works, operas, and films, reflecting on the large-cast theatrical works and the more recent poetically distilled, abstract pieces.  

In her preface to the new edition, Bonnie Marranca writes: “Now, against the background of life in extremis, it is evident that Monk had already acknowledged both the always unknown future and the resilience of human beings.”

Conversations with Meredith Monk (Expanded Edition)
Bonnie Marranca

Ecologies of Theater

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This collection of essays elaborates a new perspective on performance that links ecology and art practice. From the play of landscape in Gertrude Stein’s theatre and the mus/ecology of John Cage, to Robert Wilson's dramaturgy as an ecology. Other essays cover Meredith Monk, Maria Irene Fornes, Spalding Gray, Heiner Müller, world events and cultural forms of expression.
Ecologies of Theater
Bonnie Marranca

New Europe

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New Europe: Plays from the Continent is a collection of seven plays that explore issues of terrorism, immigration, youth, globalization, families, and post-communist culture in the years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and expansion of the European Union. It includes: Igor Bauersima, norway.today (Switzerland); Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, The Death of the Squirrel-Man (Poland); Goran Stefanovski, Hotel Europa (Macedonia); Petr Zelenka, Tales of Ordinary Madness (Czech Republic); Roland Schimmelpfennig, Push Up 1-3 (Germany): Juan Mayorga, Hamlyn (Spain); Jon Fosse, Sa ka la (Norway).

New Europe
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Performance Histories

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This collection of essays and interviews by the editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art covers a wide range of current topics, such as avant-garde legacies, performance and ethics, art as spiritual practice, and the theater of food. The volume features individual commentaries on the plays of Wallace Shawn, The Wooster Group oeuvre, Robert Wilson and Gertrude Stein, and international theater, with extended reflections on performance in downtown New York City.

Performance Histories
Bonnie Marranca

Plays for the End of the Century

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Includes: Motherhood 2000 by Adrienne Kennedy, The Law of Remains by Reza Abdoh, Pangean Dreams: A Shamanic Journey by Rachel Rosenthal, Enter The Night by Maria Irene Fornes, Two Altars, Ten Funerals (All Souls) by Erik Ehn, A Girl’s Guide to the Divine Comedy by Shelley Berc, Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St. Antony by The Wooster Group, The Mind King by Richard Foreman and Cellophane by Mac Wellman.

Plays for the End of the Century
Bonnie Marranca

Theatrewritings

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In a critical field that is itself burdened with special interests, she is a free spirit . . . . informative about a surprising diversity of writers. --Mel Gussow, New York Times.
Theatrewritings
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Timelines

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In Timelines: Writings and Conversations, Bonnie Marranca turns to far-ranging subjects that include the catastrophic imagination, landscape and writing, performance drawing, cultural history, as well as issues of emotion, beauty, and the spiritual in art. Her perspectives on performance, visual arts, media, and drama in the work of Joan Jonas, Caryl Churchill, Raimund Hoghe, Dick Hig­gins, and Meredith Monk highlight the artist in the world and ar­tistic process. Includes personal reflections on the loss of influential artists Carolee Schneemann, Sam Shepard, and Maria Irene Fornes.
Timelines