Soraya Nadia McDonald of The Undefeated joins the co-hosts to talk about theatre criticism, plus Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss Stephen Scott-Bottoms' new article on "Modern Water," and the Es Devlin episode of the Netflix show Abstract.
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Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill discuss Cats, Practical cats, Dramatical cats, Pragmatical cats, Fanatical cats, Oratorical cats, Delphic-oracle cats, Skeptical cats, Dispeptical cats, Romantical cats, Pedantical cats, Critical cats, Parasitical cats, Allegorical cats, Metaphorical cats, Statistical cats and Mystical cats, Political cats, Hypocritical cats, Clerical cats, Hysterical cats, Cynical cats, Rabbinical cats.
Here are links to some of the things we talk about on this edition:
Info and registration page for the upcoming CRCI conference at Brown University.
T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
Peter Bradshaw’s review of Cats (2019) in The Guardian.
Josie Campbell’s tweet thread about Starlight Express.
Sarah’s blog post on The Irishman and Cats.
Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss Fred Moten's essay on Othello, E. Patrick Johnson's documentary, Making Sweet Tea, and the upside of the field of theatre and performance studies in the twenty-first century.
Here are links to some of the things we discuss on this edition:
Fred Moten’s essay, “Letting go of Othello” in The Paris Review
Making Sweet Tea, the new documentary by E. Patrick Johnson and John L. Jackson
Recorded at ASTR, Sarah, Pannill, and Elizabeth Hunter (subbing in for Harvey) talk about Sharon Marcus's new book The Drama of Celebrity, meritocracy in academia, and ASTR 2019 including the demo of the VESPACE virtual reality eighteenth-century theatre project.
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Sharon Marcus’s The Drama of Celebrity
The forum on Meritocracy in the Chronicle Review
The program for ASTR 2019
VESPACE, a virtual reality project to construct an eighteenth-century Parisian fairground theatre
Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey talk about the decline of movie theatre audiences, theatre etiquette, and Waterwell Theater Company's new project, The Flores Exhibits.
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This summer’s New York Times feature on the future of movies
Endcrawl’s blog piece on movie theatre attendance
Lisa Janiak’s essay on the hand-wringing about audience behavior
Waterwell Theater Company’s new project, The Flores Exhibits
In the first edition of the new academic year, Harvey, Pannill, and the now-Canadian Sarah talk about Rebecca Kastleman's article about Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights in the new Modern Drama, recent perspectives on the job market, and ATHE 2019 in Orlando. Plus Harvey recounts witnessing a protest at a recent production of Little Shop of Horrors.
Links to some of the things we discuss in this edition:
Rebecca Kastleman’s article on Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights in Modern Drama
The new issue of Theatre Topics dedicated to graduate education
The conference program for ATHE 2019
The Anthem: Homunculus podcast/musical on Luminary
Sarah, Pannill, and Harvey discuss the new book, Postdramatic Theatre and Form, Patrick McKelvey's article, A Disabled Actor Prepares, and the uses and abuses of the term performative.
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Postdramatic Theatre and Form, the new book edited by Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish, and Brandon Woolf
“A Disabled Actor Prepares,” Patrick McKelvey’s new article in Theatre Journal
Twitter thread about abuses of the term “performative”
Daniel Bessner and Michael Brenes condemn “alt-ac” initiatives in the Chronicle
The “Heidi game” video
In this edition Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill talk about slavery in contemporary plays by Suzan-Lori Parks and Jeremy O. Harris, the recent essay in the Chronicle about academic books that won't die, and Big Dance Theater's 2016 piece Short Form. Plus Sarah explains Heidi to Harvey and Pannill.
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Live from the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces at Brown University, Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill talk about Simone Browne's book Dark Matters, John Fletcher's article on deepfake videos, and the Netflix interactive film Bandersnatch. The co-hosts are joined in the fourth chair by conference participants including:
Elise Morrison, of Yale University
Nick Porcino of Facebook Reality Labs
Kamal Sinclair, Director of the Sundance Institute's New Frontier Labs Program
David Allen of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Heidi Boisvert, Director of Emergent Media Technology at CUNY
Lori Landay, of Berklee College of Music
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In the first edition of 2019, Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss Michelle Carriger's article on Gothic Lolita fashion communities, Fortnite, the floss, and choreographic intellectual property, and the state of the market for paper editions of plays.
Here are links to some of the things we discuss in this edition:
The CFP for ASTR 2019
Michelle Carriger’s article, “‘Maidens Armor:’ Gothic Lolita Fashion Communities, and Technologies of Girly Counteridentity”
The NYT article on Fortnite and the floss
Richard Halpern’s book, Eclipse of Action
ASAP/Journal’s forum on apocalypse, climate change, and arts of the present