SEGAL TALKS with Bonnie Marranca on Monday 22 November 2021
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2021-11-22

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents SEGAL TALKS, a conversation about curating, producing, and presenting theatre and performance in the time of COVID with Bonnie Marranca, livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network on Monday 22 November 2021 at 9 a.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 12 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 17:00 GMT (London, UTC +0) / 18:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

Join us for a conversation with Bonnie Marranca about her new book: Timelines: Writings and Conversations.

Part of the Segal Center's Fall 2021 Book Talk Series.

Moderated by Frank Hentschker, Director, MESTC, The Graduate Center CUNY.​

Bonnie Marranca is the founding publisher and editor of the Obie-Award winning PAJ Publications and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (1976- ). A recipient of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award for Sustained Achievement, she is the author of Performance Histories, Ecologies of Theatre, and Theatre writings, which received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. She is Professor Emerita of Theatre at The New School/Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts.​

About Timelines: Writings and Conversations:

In Timelines: Writings and Conversations, Bonnie Marranca turns to far-ranging subjects that include the catastrophic imagination, landscape and writing, performance drawing, cultural history, as well as issues of emotion, beauty, and the spiritual in art. Her perspectives on performance, visual arts, media, and drama in the work of Joan Jonas, Caryl Churchill, Raimund Hoghe, Dick Hig­gins, and Meredith Monk highlight the artist in the world and ar­tistic process. Includes personal reflections on the loss of influential artists Carolee Schneemann, Sam Shepard, and Maria Irene Fornes. Published by PAJ Publications, 2021.The book excerpt Writing in the Landscape, courtesy of PAJ Publications​,
explores new text and image approaches by Marranca to short-form critical writing.

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