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Abstract
JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and other plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE award–winning playwright Caridad Svich. The playtexts include a lyrical meditation on the legacy of iconic queer artist Derek Jarman, a meditation on displacement and human suffering (Carthage/Cartagena), and an intimately operatic reflection on Penelope and Odysseus (The Orphan Sea). Accompanied by scholarly essays placing the plays in context, this book showcases the beautiful strangeness and profound resistance in Svich’s work.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | i | ||
| Title page | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Beautiful Strangeness: The Plays of Caridad Svich | 1 | ||
| ‘When I think of him, I think of angels’: Introducing JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) | 15 | ||
| Performing JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) | 21 | ||
| JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) | 33 | ||
| Laying Siege to Carthage | 81 | ||
| Carthage/Cartagena: when I looked up I looked for something (call it hope) | 99 | ||
| On the Act of Regarding Another: Some Thoughts on Live Performance, Silence, and Fragility | 133 | ||
| The Orphan Sea | 143 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 205 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |