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Moving the centre : two plays, Small axe & Freedom singer
- Title
- Moving the centre : two plays, Small axe & Freedom singer / by Andrew Kushnir and Khari Wendell McClelland ; with a conversation and essays by the authors ; foreword by Cecily Nicholson.
- Publication
- [Vancouver, B.C.] : Talonbooks, [2022]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 23-940 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 192 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Moving the Centre: Two Plays: Small Axe & Freedom Singer explores the original work of two documentary theatre makers who simultaneously dare, fumble, and persist in their belief that the arts can help us dialogue across differences. With personal essays complementing the plays, the book's literal middle offers a verbatim dialogue between the authors wherein they argue for the theatre as a vital ritual for our times. Small Axe charts the quest of a queer white playwright, Andrew Kushnir, who - because of an unsettling moment with a friend - is compelled to investigate homophobia in Jamaica. What starts as an artist researching an injustice "elsewhere" evolves into a startling excavation of the self and the stories we claim of others. Through a constellation of recorded encounters with activists, refugees, journalists, ministers, patient teachers and vivid critics, Small Axe asks "to whom does an injustice belong?" Freedom Singer is the theatrical iteration of Khari Wendell McClelland's multidisciplinary and personal history project of the same name. Constructed from hard-won historic material and family lore, this musical/verbatim theatre hybrid documents Khari's search for his ancestral grandmother, Kizzy. His "map" to her is far from conventional: he's learning the songs she likely sang during her escape through the Underground Railroad."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drama.
- Problem plays.
- Librettos.
- Musicals.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: On Movement as a Practice / Andrew Kushnir -- Small Axe -- Production History -- Cast & Crew -- Characters -- Playwright's Notes -- The Passing of the Mic -- A Kind of Epilogue for Small Axe -- Inside of Another House -- A Recorded Encounter Between the Playwrights -- Freedom Singer -- Production History -- Cast & Crew -- Characters -- Creators' Notes -- Songs -- How Do We Get from Here to There? / Khari Wendell McClelland.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-940
- ISBN
- 9781772013948
- 1772013943
- OCLC
- 1276932123
- Title
- Moving the centre : two plays, Small axe & Freedom singer / by Andrew Kushnir and Khari Wendell McClelland ; with a conversation and essays by the authors ; foreword by Cecily Nicholson.
- Publisher
- [Vancouver, B.C.] : Talonbooks, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- container of (work): Kushnir, Andrew, 1980- Small axe.container of (work): McClelland, Khari Wendell. Freedom singer.Nicholson, Cecily, 1974- writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-940