“OPEN BOOKS: Kimberly Jannarone”
FREE PUBLIC SERIES – OPEN BOOKS: Kimberly Jannarone
Theatre for a New Audience’s Open Books is a program of free public talks curated by the Theatre’s Literary Advisor Jonathan Kalb that feature
the critical and scholarly voices behind some of the best books newly published in the theater field.
Called “a daring and rigorous historical reinterpretation that defies critical consensus on Artaud” and “profoundly original” by critics, Kimberly
Jannarone’s unflinching book Artaud and His Doubles (Univ of Michigan Press, 2012) explores the surprisingly deep and troubling connections
between Antonin Artaud’s works and fascism. Looking through the double-lens of the works themselves and the historical moment they sprang
from, the book challenges longstanding liberal associations by Artaud’s followers and admirers. In this first offering of our Open Books series the
author will explain her discoveries and expound on their disturbing implications.
Artaud and His Doubles received the Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Award in 2012.
Kimberly Jannarone is Professor of Theater Arts and Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she holds the
Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair. Jannarone's book, Artaud and His Doubles, won Honorable Mention for the Joe Callaway Prize for best book in
drama. She received ASTR's Gerald Kahan Scholar's Prize and Honorable Mention for the Oscar Brockett Prize for essays on Artaud. She also
directs and translates experimental works, recently producing and directing the 2012-13 Gynt Project. She's currently editing the volume
Vanguards of the Right and writing her next book, Mass Performance, History, and the Invention of Tradition.
Saturday, March 29, 2014 5:30-6:30p
Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn
FREE EVENT. To RSVP or for further information, contact humanities@tfana.org or visit www.tfana.org.
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