
Of All the Nerve
Deb Margolin Solo
Deb Margolin(Author)
Lynda Hart(Editor)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 1. July 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-304-70319-7 (ISBN)
Description
The "Critical Performance" series pairs a performance artist or playwright with a critical theorist in a dialogue aimed to elucidate both
disciplines. This volume focuses on Deb Margolin, one of the three founding members of the American performance troupe Split Britches.
disciplines. This volume focuses on Deb Margolin, one of the three founding members of the American performance troupe Split Britches.
Reviews / Votes
"New York-based performance artist Margolin isn't nearly as well known as such more outrageous, taboo-flouting peers....That is a shame because Margolin creates intelligent, incisive, richly textured pieces that put the often subliterate work of higher-profile artists to shame. She began her career in the early '80s, writing material for the feminist troupe Split Britches, making a name for angry but intensely funny deconstructions of the world. By the early '90s, she was on her own, with status in the downtown scene, regularly receiving kudos in the Village Voice and the rest of the New York press. Of All the Nerve includes the scripts of seven solo shows. The title piece, a wonderful, whimsical meditation on the nature of performance and a performer's life in New York, combines with the others to reveal Margolin's full range. The scripts are accompanied by essays and commentaries by Lynda Hart that...make quite a contrast to Margolin's accessible, carefully crafted writing."--Booklist "...has a succinct sort of charm...both aims [critical intro to artist and scholarly intro to field] are fulfilled in this wonderfully written book."--The Drama Review, 1/03More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
306 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-304-70319-7 (9780304703197)
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Persons
LYNDA HART is an Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati where she teaches Modern and Contemporary Drama and Shakespeare.
Content
Introduction - a love letter; of all the nerve; commentary - beauty and the beast; 970 - DEBB; commentary - the girl can't help it; gestation; commentary - there's a party going on in here; of mice, bugs and woen; commentary - a little night music; carthieves! joyrides!; commentary - making time; o wholly night and other Jewish solecisms; commentary - like a virgin; critical mass; commentary - going critical.