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In this collection of more than fifty monologues, short stories and poems—Shepard's first—one of America's most acclaimed writers and actors reflects on growing up in America, rock and roll, the sex of fishes, and other topics. Shepard displays his virtuosic sense of the rhythms of the American landscape.

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.

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 Muller, world events and cultural forms of expression.

The new and expanded edition of Fefu and Her Friends celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the beloved play by Maria Irene Fornes, one of the most influential contemporary American playwrights. The volume includes the original version of the play, which takes place in five different environments, as well as a one-set variation, conceived and directed by the author two decades after the 1977 production. Also featured is an interview with Fornes on the play by Bonnie Marranca.PAJ Publications has published five volumes of the author’s plays, including Maria Irene Fornes: Plays, Promenade and Other Plays, What of the Night?: Selected Plays, and Letters from Cuba. For her work as writer, director, teacher, librettist, and adapter of classics, over more than four decades, Maria Irene Fornes has received nine Obie Awards.

The fourth volume in PAJ’s Performance Ideas series, The Sun on the Tongue unfolds in an expanding universe of philosophical reflections on love, art, war, nature, and human existence. Etel Adnan, the internationally renowned Arab American writer and visual artist, crosses genres and continents and centuries in her literary texts, plays, poems, and art. Her plays At A Certain Hour of the Night, Crime of Honor and Tolerance are featured here, along with essays on Pina Bausch and Paul Klee, and an interview on her life and work. Her texts have been performed or adapted for theatre, opera, and radio in the U.S. and Europe. Robert Wilson invited her to write the French section of his multi-country opera, the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down, in 1984.

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.

The Antitheatrical Prejudice is essential reading today when theatricality, antitheatricality, and performativity are once again provocative issues playing out across contemporary culture and the arts. The original edition was published in 1981. The new edition includes a Foreword by Joseph Roach, the distinguished theatre historian and stage director, and professor emeritus, Dept. of English, Yale University. He is the author of The Player’s Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting and Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance.

This best-selling volume contains several of the German author's most controversial dramas, in which he radically questions how culture, myth, art, and social relations create history. Includes: Hamletmachine, Correction, The Task, Quartet, Despoiled Shore, and Gundling's Life. One of the most original theatrical minds of our time, Müller, who resided in East Berlin before his death in 1995, was a frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson.

The most important German playwright since Brecht.-John Rockwell, New York Times

"He is James Joyce reborn as a rap artist."-Mel Gussow, The New York Times This collection includes Albanian Softshoe, Mister Original Bugg, Cleveland, Bad Penny, Cellophane, Three Americanisms, Fnu Lnu, Girl Gone, Hypatia, The Sandalwood Box and Cat's Paw. Written between 1983 and 1998, they showcase Wellman's ongoing exploration of the limits of language and the consequences of humanity in the postmodern world.

Internationally recognized for her visually elegant, thought-provoking video art, Mary Lucier was a sculptor, photographer and performance artist before she turned to video in 1973. This volume brings together a selection of Lucier's previously unpublished writings and drawings along with essays, reviews, interviews and photographs of her ephemeral installations and performances to create an absorbing portrait of one of America's most accomplished video pioneers.

The Other American Drama proposes an alternative to the received history of American drama, the Eugene O'Neil/Arthur Miller/August Wilson line of development so familiar to readers of standard drama surveys. Robinson's book discusses Gertrude Stein, Maria Irene Fornes, Adrienne Kennedy and Richard Foreman as essential members of modern American theater rather than as curious fringe figures. It also rethinks such familiar figures as Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard.

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.

Inspired by theatrical writings of Antonin Artaud, Rosenthal's performance art blends music, words, images and dance into ferociously moving works-a theater of cruelty tempered by love. Featuring critical commentary, interviews and photographs of Rosenthal's performances and collecting for the first time a selection of her writings (including the script of Rachel's Brain), this book captures the voice of a unique American artist.

In this collection of his film writings, Kauffmann discusses films released after 1993, including films from major established directors, works from the iconoclastic world of independent cinema and the best of world cinema. In other essays, he muses on cinematic adaptations of Mozart's operas, explores changing public attitudes toward film as an art form, looks at the possibilities of accurately dramatizing the Holocaust and recalls important figures in film history.

This wide-ranging anthology includes a collection of reviews tracing Foreman's reception from the 1960s to today, a series of informative interviews, a section of critical essays and a selection of Foreman's writings (including the complete text of My Head Was a Sledgehammer). The book also offers a detailed chronology of Foreman's career, a current bibliography and 19 photographs from his plays.

"You would be taxed to find a show with a sweeter temper."-The New York Times Based on three decades of letters Maria Irene Fornes received from her brother in Havana, Letters from Cuba moves back and forth in time and place and spirit, linking a young dancer and her relatives in Cuba. Also includes Terra Incognita and Manual for a Desperate Crossing.

Act French includes Adramelech's Monologue by Valere Novarina, A.W.O.L. by Olivier Cadiot, 11 Septembre 2001/11 September 2001 by Michel Vinaver, Pumpkin On The Air by Michele Sigal, We Were Sitting on The Shores of the World...by Jose Pliya, Cut by Emmanuelle Marie, and Inventories by Philippe Minyana.

This groundbreaking work of scholarship explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. Wide-ranging and richly illustrated essays uncover shifts that have occurred globally in the aesthetic understanding of performance within computer-augmented virtual and networked environments.

A major new collection of the plays by Maria Irene Fornes. Includes Abingdon Square, one of the author's best-known works originally produced in 1987 under Fornes' direction. This story of a young woman's personal liberation set in Greenwich Village of the early 1900s is played out in thirty-one sparse scenes of love and betrayal. The title play, What of the Night?, is an epic drama of four short plays on the individual's struggle with poverty, love, and sorrow. The volume also includes The Summer in Gossensass and Enter the Night. Maria Irene Fornes is a nine-time OBIE Award-winner, widely represented in the curriculum of contemporary theater in universities, and anthologized in the major contemporary drama textbooks.

A major work of scholarship on the internationally celebrated video artist Gary Hill, this volume includes many of the important critical essays on his work over more than two decades, along with interviews with Hill, his own writings on video, and two dozen illustrations.

This is the first volume of published plays by John Jesurun, one of the most innovative writer/director/media artists in America. The volume includes Shatterhand Massacree, Slight Return, Snow, and Firefall, demonstrating the range of the author's work over two decades.

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).

Two plays by one of the top ten playwrights to watch and Best Provocative Playwright by the Village Voice.

Features 150 artists notable for their sonic, visual, and live works, spanning early radio experiments of the 1880s up to the present. The volume is organized in sections dealing with performance, composition, installation, broadcast, public works, and interactive networks projects. Includes 150 illustrations.

Heiner Muller After Shakespeare makes available for the first time Macbeth and Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome, the last of the Shakespeare-inspired plays of the renowned German author to be translated into English. His reflections on the importance of his chosen dramatic model are highlighted in the text of his address Shakespeare A Difference, also included in the volume. Muller (1929-1995), whose Hamletmachine is a contemporary classic, is regarded as one of the most profound visionaries of twentieth-century drama and at the time of his death was one of Europe's leading intellectual figures. His Shakespeare plays are startling in their imagery and poetry and uncompromising depiction of the violence of power and politics. Truly, they are plays for our age. Since first introducing his work to the English-speaking world in 1983 with Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage, PAJ Publications has also published several other volumes by the author: Explosion of a Memory, The Battle, The Heiner Muller Reader. They include his dramatic works as well as poems, speeches, and interviews.Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage is one of PAJ's best-selling titles, with over 10,000 volumes in print. The volume is translated by Carl Weber and Paul David Young. Weber has edited and translated all the Muller volumes, as well as plays by Kleist, Handke, and Kroetz. Also a director, he is professor emeritus at Stanford University. Young is the recipient of the Kennedy Center's Paul Vogel Playwriting Award. He is currently working on a film version of his play In the Summer Pavilion. "Heiner Muller was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and will undoubtedly be among the most indispensable of the 21st, the terrors of which his plays seem to have anticipated and anatomized. As Shakespeare's dramatic poems emerged from an historical moment of a great linguistic and cultural synthesis, Muller's gorgeous, mind-bending and altering upgrades of Shakespeare mark our present crisis-moment of linguistic and cultural discombobulation, if not disintegration." - Tony Kushner, playwright "Heiner Muller's unmistakable voice--ferocious and brilliant, brutal and profoun -- burns through in pitch-perfect translations.Macbeth and Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome are the perfect Shakespearean vehicles for Muller's vision of the bloody twentieth century. These plays are not just great theatre--and they are great theatre--they are indispensable documents of European culture." - Oskar Eustis, artistic director, The Public Theater "Heiner Muller's plays, astonishing in their punch and poetry, are imbued with muscularity, richness and theatricality. His influence on the field is palpable and PAJ's publications of brilliant translations will help to ensure that Muller's wide-open vision of the theatre will proliferate. We urgently need his combination of the political, personal and aesthetic in our current culture." - Anne Bogart, artistic director, Siti Company "A new volume of Heiner Muller's coruscating, deeply damaged performance prose/ poetry arrives just in time for further chapters of the continued degradation and decline of the West. His theatre pieces take on galling new dimensions as democracies all over the world are in crisis and citizens of Arab countries pour into the streets to demand self-determination...Heiner Muller was a connoisseur of tyranny.The violence and the decay are already in the language, and thus his rendezvous with Shakespeare...After the fire, there is space for new growth in an old forest." - Peter Sellars, director

One of the most controversial and ironic of twentieth-century modernisms, Dada swept through the arts after the shock of World War I, when poets, painters, filmmakers, and performers joined forces to challenge conventions of society and art. The only collection of its kind, this volume includes writings by leading Dadaists: Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Huelsenbeck, Roger Vitrac, Tristan Tzara, Emmy Hennings, Francis Picabia, and others.

"[Bruce Nauman] has had a crucial impact on his peers as well as on countless younger artists in America and abroad."--Robert Storr, critic/curator Part of PAJ's acclaimed Art + Performance series, this is the first book to combine the essential critical writings on Bruce Nauman, interviews with him, and the artist's own writings, organized around performance issues. Contains more than forty selections, and several pages of illustrations.

"newARTtheatre's greatest value may be that of a historical document of the understanding of a specific set of performance practices in its own time of making. The fresh and speculative perspective of these artists grappling with the evolving paradigm of the tightening entanglement between performance and visual artist is worth a read now and may be rich material for historians to come." —Jess Wilcox, The Brooklyn RailOne of the hotly debated current issues is the turn by visual artists towards theatre as a way of working, by using plays, acting and rehearsal techniques for their art. The first of the new "Performance Ideas" books by PAJ, this volume includes playwright and curator Paul David Young in dialogue with many crossover artists, including Pablo Helguera, Liz Magic Laser, David Levine, Janet Cardiff, Alix Pearlstein, and Michael Smith, who offer wide-ranging views on performance, video, photography, and sound.