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Program Four
Carla Harryman
Five New Works
Friday & Saturday, May 23 & 24, 8pm
Sunday, May 25, 7pm
$12 ($10 students)
Carla Harryman is known for her genre-disrupting prose, poetry, and performance works. Recent performance works have emphasized polyvocal text, bilingualism, choral speaking voices, and music improvisation. This program infuses improvisational electronic sound, choral and sound-based performance writing, and Poet’s Theater in five new works: Bad History by Barrett Watten,
Try! Try! by Frank O'Hara, Mirror Play by Carla Harryman, Sue by Carla Harryman, and Requiem by Kathy Acker. In the 1980s, Carla Harryman co-founded the San Francisco Bay Area Poet’s Theater, which presented performances of experimental plays by poets. The author of thirteen books, she serves as full-time faculty in the Department of English at Wayne State University. www.performingobjects.com
Harryman explores the nature of imagination…and toys with perceptions of reality amidst a set of art objects navigated by skillful performers who become art in themselves. – San Francisco Gate
Collaborators: Jennifer Scappettone is the author of two chapbooks and a collection of poetry. Her writing appears in a range of journals and anthologies. She teaches at the University of Chicago. David Trinidad is a published author and editor who teaches at Columbia College Chicago, prior to which he taught at The New School. He has also taught at Rutgers, Princeton, and Antioch Universities. Judith Goldman’s work is anthologized in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Make Now Books) among other collections. She is a Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago, where she teaches in the humanities core. Katie McGowan is an artist concerned with dissecting contemporary political and social constructs. She is currently an MFA candidate and teaching assistant in the University of Iowa’s Intermedia Area. Elana Elyce has taught, directed, and produced theatre, and is involved with Second City's outreach and diversity troupe and Lincoln Square Theatre. www.elanaelyce.net Julia Klein is the art/set designer for this program, and is currently working on an MFA in sculpture at Bard College.
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