Description
The Incomplete Amber Reed is a rigorously incomplete compendium of Amber Reed's partial, unfinished, and excerpted plays and fragments, including at least scenes from Scenes with Joyce Cho, The Grand Kindness, Mr. Apocope, The Aiken Character Calendar Book of Hours, Augustine of Hippo, and The Minister's Black Veil, her adaptation-with-vegetables of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story of the same name. A member of Joyce Cho-the group of five weird, wily, lyrical, ludicrous playwrights whose total disregard for the realistic manifestation of their extravagant and poetic scenarios has revolutionized or at least revolted the modern American theater-Amber Reed's writing is protean and quicksilvery. She moves from one experiment to the next, never settling, addressing our perfections, and yet in her flight so unsettling the theatrical landscape that she makes perfection itself demode. In its incomprehensiveness, this collection eschews the notion that these plays are to be comprehended-reduced, contained, explained, or "gotten" like a gumball from a gumball machine. As Mac Wellman writes of Joyce Cho, "I do not understand the work of these writers in the same way I do not understand the sky, the sea, and the secret of the forest. They are unlike any others I know in the theater of our time." Or in Reed's words, "I was here for this."
About the Author
Amber Reed is a Korean American writer of texts for performance, fiction, and nonfiction. A founding member of playwriting think tank Joyce Cho, her work has been performed in venues including the Prelude Festival, Catch, Little Theater, Cho-Chiqq, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Metropolitan Playhouse, with support from The MacDowell Colony and Soho Rep Writer-Director Lab. She lives in New Jersey with her family.
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- Contributor: Amber Reed
- Imprint: 53rd State Press
- ISBN13: 9781737025580
- Number of Pages: 200
- Packaged Dimensions: 139x190mm
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: 53rd State Press
- Release Date: 2024-10-17
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Amber Reed is a Korean American writer of texts for performance, fiction, and nonfiction. A founding member of playwriting think tank Joyce Cho, her work has been performed in venues including the Prelude Festival, Catch, Little Theater, Cho-Chiqq, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Metropolitan Playhouse, with support from The MacDowell Colony and Soho Rep Writer-Director Lab. She lives in New Jersey with her family.
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