The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde

by Sara Farrington (Editor)

Overview

In this collection of interviews conducted between 2019-2021 with New York theater artists who have spent their lives working in and inventing the avant-garde, playwright Sara Farrington brings to light a series of "lost conversations" about class, race, difficulty, endurance, and privilege in the New York avant-garde of the past fifty years, as well as conversations about the ephemerality, the always-about-to-be-lostness of the medium itself. Featuring conversations with Joanne Akalaitis, Anne Bogart, Lee Breuer, Ping Chong, Richard Foreman, Andre Gregory, Deborah Hay, Bill T. Jones, Adrienne Kennedy, Lola Pashalinksi, Jennifer Tipton, Kate Valk, Mac Wellman, and Robert Wilson, The Lost Conversation is also a record both of the avant-garde's past and of its urgent present.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732545281
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	05/24/2022
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sara Farrington is an NYC & NJ based playwright and co-founder of Foxy Films theater company with Reid Farrington. MFA from Brooklyn College w/ Mac Wellman, HARP Artist at HERE Arts Center for her play CasablancaBox, which was nominated for two 2017 Drama Desk Awards: Unique Theatrical Experience & Outstanding Projection Design. Sara's plays have been critically acclaimed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, American Theatre magazine, NY1, El Diario, and more. Recent plays include BrandoCapote, CasablancaBox, Mendacity, Great Hunger, Leisure Labor Lust, Honduras, Cosmicomics, The Return, Near Vicksburg, Mickey & Sage, The Rise & Fall of Miles & Milo. Her work has received support from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Venturous Fund, MediaTHE, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation. Sara is a MacDowell fellow, Connecticut College & NTI @ Eugene O'Neill Center grad, Wooster Group intern & actor for 3 seasons at the great Jean Cocteau Rep. Plays published by Broadway Play Publishing. She is one of the original founders of the non-profit Immigrant Families Together & a champion of the #MeToo movement. For more: www.ladyfarrington.com

Table of Contents

Preface Sara Farrington ix

Introduction Kate Kremer xi

Jessica Hagedorn 1

Richard Foreman 17

Karen Kandel 29

Lee Breuer + Maude Mitchell 43

David Henry Hwang 57

Bill T. Jones 71

Lola Pashalinski + Linda Chapman 93

Eduardo Machado 105

Jo Anne Akalaitis 125

Jennifer Tipton 139

Jeffrey M. Jones 149

Anne Bogart 163

Robert Wilson 175

Deborah Hay 181

Andre Gregory 191

Ping Chong 203

Gloria Miguel 213

Black-Eyed Susan 223

Nicky Paraiso 233

David Van Tieghem 243

Mac Wellman 255

Kate Valk 269

Adrienne Kennedy 279

Ching Valdes-Aran 283