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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

Posted inArt

Suzanne Lacy’s Object Lessons on How to Get Things Done

by Paul David Young May 4, 2022May 5, 2022

Lacy investigates, questions, confronts, and ultimately pushes her audience in the right direction.

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Two Plays by Downtown Legend María Irene Fornés

by Paul David Young February 29, 2020March 1, 2020

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

by Paul David Young November 23, 2019November 23, 2019

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

by Paul David Young May 18, 2019May 17, 2019

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

by Paul David Young March 16, 2019March 16, 2019

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

by Paul David Young December 23, 2018December 21, 2018

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

by Paul David Young December 15, 2018December 14, 2018

The Prisoner conjures a timelessness that recalls Waiting for Godot.

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A Marxist Performance Pays Participants for Oversharing and Simulated Sex

by Paul David Young October 25, 2018October 24, 2018

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

by Paul David Young June 8, 2018

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

by Paul David Young February 21, 2018

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

by Paul David Young January 28, 2018January 26, 2018

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

by Paul David Young September 30, 2017September 29, 2017

Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula and American writer and director Annie Dorsen contemplate storytelling at the Crossing the Line Festival.

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