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"This collection charts three projects by performance-makers who generate autobiographical writing by taking walks. It includes performance texts and photographs, as well as essays by the artists that discuss processes of development, writing and performance. The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside are performances made by Phil Smith based on an initial exploratory walking of an area of South Devon where he was taken for childhood holidays and then on to Munich, Herm and San Gimignano. Both shows were accompanied by the distribution of maps seeking to provoke the audience to make their own exploratory walks. Mourning Walk is a performance that relates to a walk Carl Lavery made to mark the anniversary of his father's death. Lavery shows how a secret can be both shared and hidden through the act of communication as he explores 'an ethics of autobiographical performance'. In Tree, the result of a multi-disciplinary collaborative process, Dee Heddon occupies a single square foot of soil, and discovers that by standing stationary and looking closely she can travel across continents and centuries, making unexpected connections through an extroverted autobiographical practice. The work of all three artists, taken together and separately, raises important issues about memory, ritual, life writing, textuality, subjectivity, and site in performance."--Publisher's description.

Autobiographical drama, English. --- One-person shows (Performing arts) --- Walking --- Pedestrianism --- Aerobic exercises --- Animal locomotion --- Athletics --- Human locomotion --- One-man shows (Performing arts) --- One-woman shows (Performing arts) --- Solo acts (Performing arts) --- Performing arts --- English autobiographical drama --- English drama --- Art de performance --- Gehen. --- Konceptkonst. --- One-person shows (Performing arts). --- Performance --- Performance. --- Performancekonstnärer. --- Walking. --- Récits personnels. --- Heddon, Deirdre. --- Lavery, Carl. --- Smith, Phil.

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What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance , Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change.She traces these "utopian performatives" in a range of performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; multicharacter solo performances by Lily Tomlin, Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith; the slam poetry event Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket, a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson; Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the book richly captures moments of "feeling utopia" found within specific performances, it also celebrates the broad potential that performance has to provide a forum for being human together; for feeling love, hope, and commonality in particular and historical (rather than universal and transcendent) ways.

Acting --- anno 1900-1999 --- Monodrama --- One-person shows (Performing arts). --- Theater --- History and criticism. --- Psychological aspects. --- PERFORMING ARTS --- General --- One-person shows (Performing arts) --- Monodramas --- Drama --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Actors --- One-man shows (Performing arts) --- One-woman shows (Performing arts) --- Solo acts (Performing arts) --- One-person plays --- Solo dramas --- Solo plays --- Monologues --- History and criticism --- Psychological aspects --- Monodramas. --- Performance. --- Competence --- Work