Anne Bogart is an award-winning theatre maker; and a best-selling writer of books about theatre; art; and cultural politics. In this her latest collection of essays she explores the story-telling impulse; and asks how she; as a lsquo;product of postmodernismrsquo;; can reconnect to the primal act of making meaning and telling stories. She also asks how theatre practitioners can think of themselves not as stagers of plays but lsquo;orchestrators of social interactionsrsquo; and participants in an on-going dialogue about the future.??We dream. And then occasionally we attempt to share our dreams with others. In recounting our dreams we try to construct a narrative... We also make stories out of our daytime existence. The human brain is a narrative creating machine that takes whatever happens and imposes chronology; meaning; cause and effect... We choose. We can choose to relate to our circumstances with bitterness or with openness. The stories that we tell determine nothing less than personal destiny. (From the introduction)?This compelling new book is characteristically made up of chapters with one-word titles: Spaciousness; Narrative; Heat; Limits; Error; Politics; Arrest; Empathy; Opposition; Collaboration and Sustenance. In addition to dipping into neuroscience; performance theory and sociology; Bogart also recounts vivid stories from her own life. But as neuroscience indicates; the event of remembering what happened is in fact the creation of something new.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An analyses of 31 Wallenberg memorials in 12 countriesBy SupporterThis book is the second of a planned series on the Holocaust and its context. Series editors are Olaf Jenson;University of Leicester; UK and Claus-Christian W.Szejnmann; Loughborough University; UK. The author of Heros Many Faces is Tanja Schult. The bookdescribes and analyses 31 public memorials to Raoul Wallenberg in 12 countries. The diversity of the artists approach to Wallenberg memorials runs the full range from portraits to abstraction. In every memorial; Schult takes the reader through a very detailed visit to each site as well as an overview of the artists intent and the history of the memorials development. The book is a must read for anyone who has an interest in public memorials or might be entering a competition to create one. Some background in art history would be helpful; but is not necessary. I know of no other book on the subject of public memorials as well written and as ambitious as this one. I highly recommend it.
