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OverviewFrom the Marrow Vol. 1collects five ritual/jazz performance texts by Sharon Bridgforth, includinglovve/rituals & rage,no mo blues,dyke/warrior-prayers,blood pudding, andcon flama. Rooted in blues and bristling with the voices of ancestors, lovers, aunties, neighbors, and friends, these texts document the first decade of Bridgforth's thirty-year practice, including the founding of The root wy'mn Theatre Company. Shapeshifting, polyvocal, multi-gendered, genre-bending, nonlinear, Bridgforth's writing innovates form the way the ocean carves the coast: with sensuality, salty humor, aching grief and rage, and with vast, various, and invariable love. This volume-the first of two-includes essays, interviews, and witnessings by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sonja Parks, Stacey Karen Robinson, Sonja Perryman, and Robbie McCauley. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sharon Bridgforth , Alexis Pauline Gumbs , Sonja Parks , Stacey Karen RobinsonPublisher: 53rd State Press Imprint: 53rd State Press ISBN: 9798986581453Pages: 256 Publication Date: 07 November 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationSharon Bridgforth(she/her/Mermaid) is a writer that creates ritual/jazz theater. A 2022 winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, Sharon is a 2020-2023 Playwrights' Center Core Member, a 2022-2023 McKnight Fellow, and a New Dramatists alum. She has received support from the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. Her writing is featuredin Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature;Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought, andFeminist Studies'special issue commemorating 40 years ofThis Bridge Called My BackandBut Some of Us Are Brave!Sharon'sdat Black Mermaid Man Lady/The Showis streaming on the Twin Cities' PBS platform. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |