Author: Jennifer Cayer
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Slavic Soul Remix: Bring a Weasel and a Pint of your Own Blood Festival at JACK
The annual dare: Mac Wellman challenges three of his Brooklyn College playwrights to write short pieces based on the same source material, this year Maxim Gorky’s remembrances of Tolstoy, Chekhov, […]
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Return of the Repressed: Clare Barron’s I’LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN at The Bushwick Starr
I’ll Never Love Again transcends one woman’s story to become a kind of inter-generational love letter to the fleeting intensity of adolescence and the lives we led before our skins solidified into patterns made by love, loss, and time.
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Everymen: Actors Theatre of Louisville’s The Glory of the World
What I remember about Everyman, the 15th (I think?) century morality play taught in many theater history surveys: next to nothing. It’s allegorical, performers act in the role of virtues, […]
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Minor Threats: Chris Thorpe & Rachel Chavkin’s Confirmation at The Invisible Dog, COIL Festival 2016
I haven’t thrown a dildo in the mailbox for Oregon, but I’ve belatedly followed the white militia’s armed occupation of a wildlife refuge and the ensuing conversations around who is […]
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Forgetting, Remembering, Forgetting Again – a dialogue on watching via ‘tiger tiger’
Dan O’Neil and Jennifer Cayer attended ‘tiger tiger (on the nature of violence)’ at Dixon Place on separate nights. Then they wrote this.
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Let The Machine Get It
A response to Rude Mechs and Deborah Hay’s MATCH-PLAY at New York Live Arts