The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance Roman David
The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance Roman David This is the first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. The MacArthur…
Specifikacia The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance Roman David
The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance Roman David
This is the first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. The MacArthur Foundation soon thereafter awarded their "genius" award to a "writer, director, actor, singer, and performance artist whose fearlessly experimental works dramatize the power of theater as a space for building community . . . Mac is particularly celebrated for the historic performance event A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, in which Mac, in fantastical costumes designed by collaborator Machine Dazzle, sang the history of the United States for 24 straight hours in October 2016.
[and who] interacts with the audience to inspire a reconsideration of assumptions about gender, identity, ethnicity, and performance itself."Featuring essays, interviews, and commentaries by noted critics and artists, the volume examines the vastness of Mac's theatrical