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Execution of Justice

The word is either sufficient or it is not.

February 10, 2011February 16, 2011 Jules Odendahl-James 3 Comments Dramaturg blog

I love making theater. The process guarantees that no matter how many times I’ve read, heard, or watched a play I will always be struck by a character, a scene, or a single line in a wholly new way. It’s a feeling similar to what Naomi expressed Tuesday night — even though she’s been a […]

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How to tell the story?

February 6, 2011February 9, 2011 Jules Odendahl-James 3 Comments Dramaturg blog

This past Tuesday, three groups of students made class presentations on the three “supporting” plays we are reading in preparation for The Laramie Project. The plays — Our Town (1938), Execution of Justice (1986), Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches (1991) — represent a through-line of performance form and content that have direct connections […]

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Chronology as historiography

February 1, 2011February 3, 2011 Jules Odendahl-James 1 Comment Dramaturg blog

For tonight’s class meeting, students have been asked to read and discuss the intersections between three scripts and two pieces of theater theory/analysis alongside The Laramie Project. In advance, I’ve sketched out a chronology of these texts so we might identify an emerging historiography of documentary performance in relation to when (and by whom) these […]

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