The 53rd State Occasional No. 2 by Will Arbery


The 53rd State Occasional No. 2
Title : The 53rd State Occasional No. 2
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ISBN : 0989739376
ISBN-10 : 9780989739375
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 102
Publication : Published December 1, 2018

Each edition of the invites a guest editor to talk with artists, thinkers and members of our community about questions that we have and topics that move us. For the second issue, we invited playwright Will Arbery to do the asking, and in turn he invited Alexander Borinsky, Matty Davis, Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Corinne Donly, David Greenspan, Phillip Howze, Julia Jarcho, Modesto Flako Jimenez, Mia Katigbak, MJ Kaufman, Kristine Haruna Lee, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Daaimah Mubashshir, Rachel Marlene Kauder Nalebuff, Caitlin Ryan O'Connell, Zach Rufa, Ren Dara Santiago, Celine Song, Jordan Tannahill, Kate Tarker, Alice Tuan, Korde Arrington Tuttle, and Madeline Wise to consider the notion of "invitation."

The 53rd State Occasional No. 2 Reviews

  • Aaron Thomas

    The prompt regarding invitations is excellent, and some of the theatremakers respond with beautiful ideas about theatre and its invitations. This is exactly the kind of thing I want to assign to my theatre students. One thing I especially like about this little book is encountering a writer's thinking away from the plays she writes. How does she envision the theatre for her and what is obsessing her as she writes. These are interesting things for pother writers to ponder. And the best of these essays prompted me to read (finally) some of the plays by writers I hadn't yet read.

  • Daniel

    The container Will Arbery makes to think about who we do or don't invite is rich and worth considering. (And possibly at the heart of what theater is.) Many of these invitations did little for me. The ones that do, though: whoa! korde arrington tuttle's invitation to welcome in the darkness; Agnes Borinsky's argument against anyone being smarter than anybody else; "theater is a wolf in disguise as a party"; inviting people who would be enthusiastic to be there... ; a lot of food for thought in thinking about your own personal invitations here, plus an introduction to many fabulous writers and thinkers.