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Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART


Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART

Paperback by Wren, Jacob

Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART

£17.95

ISBN:
9781771663892
Publication Date:
13 Apr 2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Book*hug
Pages:
260 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 28 - 30 May 2024
Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART

Description

Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART is a compelling hybrid of history, memoir, and performance theory. It tells the story of the interdisciplinary performance group PME-ART and their ongoing endeavour to make a new kind of highly collaborative theatre dedicated to the fragile but essential act of "being yourself in a performance situation." Written, among other things, to celebrate PME-ART's twentieth anniversary, the book begins when Jacob Wren meets Sylvie Lachance and Richard Ducharme, moves from Toronto to Montreal to make just one project, but instead ends up spending the next twenty years creating an eccentric, often bilingual, art. It is a book about being unable to learn French yet nonetheless remaining co-artistic director of a French-speaking performance group, about the Spinal Tap-like adventures of being continuously on tour, about the rewards and difficulties of intensive collaborations, about making performances that break the mold and confronting the repercussions of doing so. A book that aims to change the rules for how interdisciplinary performance can be written about today.

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