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New from PAJ Publications:
Timelines
Writings and Conversations
by Bonnie Marranca
NEW YORK, NY – PAJ Publications, one of TCG’s partner publishers, is pleased to announce the publication of Timelines: Writings and Conversations by Bonnie Marranca.
The new volume of essays and conversations by arts critic Bonnie Marranca, featuring her work of the last dozen years, turns to subjects that include the catastrophic imagination, cultural history, performance and drawing, landscape and writing, as well issues of beauty, emotion, and the spiritual in art. Thinking about the artist in the world and the nature of artistic process, she extends her longtime interests in theatre, visual arts, media, dance, and drama to the work of Joan Jonas, Caryl Churchill, Meredith Monk, Raimund Hoghe, Dick Higgins, Etel Adnan, and others in the thirty-four pieces in the volume. A chapter entitled “Editorial I,” focuses on the author’s long-time editorship of PAJ Publications and views on criticism and education. “Writing in the Landscape,” explores new text and image approaches to short-form critical writing. There are also personal reflections on the recent loss of Carolee Schneemann, Maria Irene Fornés, and Sam Shepard.
“Over the years I have been drawn to Bonnie Marranca’s writings and to her sensibilities, which are always exquisitely informed, personally engaged, theoretically penetrating, and poetically illuminating. Her new book of reflections and conversations is a welcome arrival at this moment of great social and political change. The breadth of her interests originates in the cultural life of New York City and then spreads out into the world. She tosses a wide net across the cultural waters, giving us access to her conversations with and musings about some of the most compelling artists of the past several decades.” —Anne Bogart
From the Preface: “This contemporary moment calls out for artistic forces to rethink their ways of working and organizing and valuing. In terms of the theatre culture, now is the time for a fearless awakening of contemporary practices, eliciting new models of writing and performing. If drama, the mainstay of the theatrical repertoire, is predicated on the search for truth, to explore what that means in an era that has disavowed its very idea opens up a resounding field of inquiry. Looked at from another perspective, the forced absence of all live arts provokes new equations of online performance and spectatorship that are certain to impact their evolution. What depths of the human imagination lie in wait in darkened theatres?”
Bonnie Marranca is founding publisher and editor of the Obie-Award winning PAJ Publications and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. (1976- ) She is the author of Performance Histories, Ecologies of Theatre, and Theatrewritings. Her edited volumes of plays, essays, and interviews include Conversations with Meredith Monk, New Europe: plays from the continent, Plays for the End of the Century, and The Theatre of Images, a seminal work on American Theatre. Her writings have been translated into two-dozen languages. She is Professor Emerita of Theatre at The New School/Lang College of Liberal Arts.
PAJ Publications is an independent press (founded in 1976) publishing the periodical PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art as well as books of plays, essays, and interviews. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art is a triannual periodical offering expanded coverage of performance, video, dance, drama, film, music, photography, installations and media. Issues feature artists’ writings, critical essays, historical documentation, interviews, performance texts and plays. The journal is published for PAJ by special arrangement with MIT Press Journals: https://direct.mit.edu/pajj. Over more than four decades the book division of the press has published 158 volumes of plays and essays, by such authors as Maria Irene Fornés, Michael Chekhov, Sam Shepard, R.W. Fassbinder, Thomas Bradshaw, Mac Wellman.
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) exists to strengthen, nurture, and promote professional theatre in the U.S. and globally. Since its founding in 1961, TCG’s constituency has grown from a handful of groundbreaking theatres to over 700 Member Theatres and affiliate organizations and nearly 8,000 Individual Members. Through its Core Values of Activism, Artistry, Diversity, and Global Citizenship, TCG advances a better world for theatre and a better world because of theatre. TCG offers its members networking and knowledge-building opportunities through research, communications, and events, including the annual TCG National Conference, one of the largest nationwide gatherings of theatre people; awards grants and scholarships to theatre companies and individual artists; advocates on the federal level; and through the Global Theater Initiative, TCG's partnership with the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, serves as the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute. TCG is North America’s largest independent trade publisher of dramatic literature, with 18 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama on the TCG booklist. It also publishes the award-winning American Theatre magazine and ARTSEARCH®, the essential source for a career in the arts. In all of its endeavors, TCG seeks to increase the organizational efficiency of its Member Theatres, cultivate and celebrate the artistic talent and achievements of the field, and promote a larger public understanding of, and appreciation for, the theatre. TCG is led by Executive Director/CEO, Teresa Eyring and Deputy Director/COO, Adrian Budhu. www.tcg.org.
Timelines: Writings and Conversations
By Bonnie Marranca
300 pages
July 2021
$19.95
Paperback
978-1-55554-167-5
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