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Theatre versus Journalism: How Anna Deavere Smith and Mike Daisey Blurred the Line (Past Times Solo Performance Series Book 10)

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Description:Anna Deavere Smith’s stunning one-woman documentaries on subjects as diverse as racial tensions (“Fires in the Mirror”) and the nation’s health care crisis have captivated audiences coast to coast. Based on hundreds of interviews with persons of every ethnicity from all walks of life, her monodramas have turned the theatre into a rare community forum for dialogue of the kind that quietly moves mountains. In much the way novelist John Dos Passos once used his journalistic skills to sketch vast portraits of America and raise prickly questions about the nature of society and identity, Smith has taken the temperature of her times. Employing a tape recorder and an unparalleled talent for listening, she captures her subjects with no less veracity than a photojournalist might with a camera. “Some people call what I do journalism. But I haven’t been trained that way so I’d never call myself one,” Smith has stated. Mike Daisey’s unscripted theatrical opinion pieces (“The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”) are strikingly original one-of-a-kind works that blur the line between theatre and journalism with a methodology unlike Smith’s. "They generally grow out of obsession—I tend to look for a place where multiple obsessions I have collide with each other, and it's that colliding with each other where the monologue actually is," Daisey said. "Actually, what's drawn me especially in the last couple of years is a strongly journalistic sense about what is happening to us now as a culture and society."Other solo artists whose work is discussed in this ebook include playwright-director Emily Mann, who has been credited with pioneering today’s documentary-style theatre, and Eve Ensler, who performed “The Vagina Monologues” herself as a one-woman show before it became an international phenomenon.This ebook is a chapter from the revised and expanded edition of ACTING SOLO: THE ART AND CRAFT OF SOLO PERFORMANCE, which will be available in Fall 2012.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Theatre versus Journalism: How Anna Deavere Smith and Mike Daisey Blurred the Line (Past Times Solo Performance Series Book 10). To get started finding Theatre versus Journalism: How Anna Deavere Smith and Mike Daisey Blurred the Line (Past Times Solo Performance Series Book 10), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Anna Deavere Smith’s stunning one-woman documentaries on subjects as diverse as racial tensions (“Fires in the Mirror”) and the nation’s health care crisis have captivated audiences coast to coast. Based on hundreds of interviews with persons of every ethnicity from all walks of life, her monodramas have turned the theatre into a rare community forum for dialogue of the kind that quietly moves mountains. In much the way novelist John Dos Passos once used his journalistic skills to sketch vast portraits of America and raise prickly questions about the nature of society and identity, Smith has taken the temperature of her times. Employing a tape recorder and an unparalleled talent for listening, she captures her subjects with no less veracity than a photojournalist might with a camera. “Some people call what I do journalism. But I haven’t been trained that way so I’d never call myself one,” Smith has stated. Mike Daisey’s unscripted theatrical opinion pieces (“The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”) are strikingly original one-of-a-kind works that blur the line between theatre and journalism with a methodology unlike Smith’s. "They generally grow out of obsession—I tend to look for a place where multiple obsessions I have collide with each other, and it's that colliding with each other where the monologue actually is," Daisey said. "Actually, what's drawn me especially in the last couple of years is a strongly journalistic sense about what is happening to us now as a culture and society."Other solo artists whose work is discussed in this ebook include playwright-director Emily Mann, who has been credited with pioneering today’s documentary-style theatre, and Eve Ensler, who performed “The Vagina Monologues” herself as a one-woman show before it became an international phenomenon.This ebook is a chapter from the revised and expanded edition of ACTING SOLO: THE ART AND CRAFT OF SOLO PERFORMANCE, which will be available in Fall 2012.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Theatre versus Journalism: How Anna Deavere Smith and Mike Daisey Blurred the Line (Past Times Solo Performance Series Book 10). To get started finding Theatre versus Journalism: How Anna Deavere Smith and Mike Daisey Blurred the Line (Past Times Solo Performance Series Book 10), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Theatre versus Journalism: How Anna Deavere Smith and Mike Daisey Blurred the Line (Past Times Solo Performance Series Book 10)

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