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Paul David Young
Paul David Young is a Contributing Editor for PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press). His book newARTtheatre: Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic, about visual artists appropriating theatre, was issued by PAJ in 2014. His 2017 Trump satire, Faust 3: The Turd Coming, or The Fart of the Deal at Judson Church, was featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Village Voice ("Voice Choice"), The Wall Street Journal, Hyperallergic, StageBuddy, FrontRowCenter and TheaterIsEasy. www.pauldavidyoung.com
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Two Plays by Downtown Legend María Irene Fornés
These plays depict a reality that seems familiar and plausible yet feels dreamlike, monumental, and mythical.
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Staging a History of Violence
Schaubühne Berlin vividly adapts the author Édouard Louis’s first-person account of the experience of rape and attempted murder.
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This Year’s Ten Best German Plays
The work on display at Berlin’s Theatertreffen draws on film, novels, Brecht, and ancient Greek drama.
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The Wooster Group Explores Black Folklore in Texas State Prisons
The live a cappella is a result of the conditions under which the songs were originally sung: in open fields.
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Social Climbing in Lynn Nottage’s Comedy
The playwright’s protagonist rises to the pinnacle of society only to fall back down to the housing project where she grew up.
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Peter Brook’s Meditation on Guilt
The Prisoner conjures a timelessness that recalls Waiting for Godot.
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A Marxist Performance Pays Participants for Oversharing and Simulated Sex
The directed actions in Ivo Dimchev’s P Project progressed from audience members dancing alone in front strangers to nude performers simulating sex.
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At the Brooklyn Museum, Actors Play at Faking Democracy
The actor’s trade is always a deception, creating the appearance of authenticity.
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A Play About Jackson Pollock’s Life Obscures Lee Krasner’s Importance
Pollock by Fabrice Melquiot is in many ways just another paean to the ‘heroic male painter.’
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An Uprising Beneath the Streets of Los Angeles
The 1966 student protests in Durango are the basis for a performance by the Mexico City-based collective Teatro Línea de Sombra.
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A Dance Crosses Borders, from the Congo to the Stars
Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula and American writer and director Annie Dorsen contemplate storytelling at the Crossing the Line Festival.