Of All the Nerve by Lynda Hart
The "Critical Performance" series pairs a performance artist or playwright with a critical theorist in a dialogue aimed to elucidate both disciplines. This volume focuses on Deb Margolin, one of the three founding members of the American performance troupe Split Britches.
"New York-based performance artist Margolin isn't nearly as well known as such more outrageous, taboo-flouting peers...That is a shame because Margolin creates intelligent, incisive, richly textured pieces that put the often subliterate work of higher-profile artists to shame. She began her career in the early '80s, writing material for the feminist troupe Split Britches, making a name for angry but intensely funny deconstructions of the world. By the early '90s, she was on her own, with status in the downtown scene, regularly receiving kudos in the Village Voice and the rest of the New York press. Of All the Nerve includes the scripts of seven solo shows. The title piece, a wonderful, whimsical meditation on the nature of performance and a performer's life in New York, combines with the others to reveal Margolin's full range. The scripts are accompanied by essays and commentaries by Lynda Hart that...make quite a contrast to Margolin's accessible, carefully crafted writing."--Booklist
"...has a succinct sort of charm...both aims [critical intro to artist and scholarly intro to field] are fulfilled in this wonderfully written book."--The Drama Review, 1/03
"...has a succinct sort of charm...both aims [critical intro to artist and scholarly intro to field] are fulfilled in this wonderfully written book."--The Drama Review, 1/03
LYNDA HART is an Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati where she teaches Modern and Contemporary Drama and Shakespeare.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780304703197 |
| ISBN 10 | 0304703192 |
| Title | Of All the Nerve |
| Author | Lynda Hart |
| Series | Critical Performances |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 1999-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Drama/Theater) 1999 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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