A punchy and provocative new play by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen. Georgie is thirty with dirty secrets. She drinks in her bedroom and hides from the sun. Leah is fifteen with teenage dreams. She practices her cum face and Veets. A lot. All-meat; all-sex; all-vulnerable; all-powerful. Theres a first time for everything... Isnt there? Freak premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Sweetness and Light by the fire of destructionBy S. FrankCastronovo argues that late 19th and early 20th century American "aesthetic" events were often generative of violence or that violent demonstrations were generative of aesthetic moments. Art shows; exhibits; early films; etc.; resulted in mayhem yet representations of violence or chaos conformed to aesthetic norms. This dialectical tension resulted in a kind of national manifestation of Matthew Arnolds Culture and Anarchy. Think: sweetness and light by the fire of destruction. Castronovo obfuscates the distinction between theoretical Marxism and historical anarchism but otherwise its a solid book.8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. well researchedBy Seaboard Lit ProfThe author collects a striking range of materials for this examination of ideas about art and aesthetics at the turn of the 20th century; from university dissertations to Charlie Chaplain and all kinds of texts and objects in between. It is refreshing to see a work of cultural studies scholarship that acknowledges and explores the progressive possibilities of aesthetics. On the other hand; the range of materials explored sometimes makes the arguments indistinct; there is a risk of defaulting to a "both/and" position that loses critical purchase. Did people believe aesthetic objects and experience could foster middle-class order (and tamp down working-class dissent); or did they fear/hope it could incite violence and open new solidarities? Well; both--but that answer is to be expected when "aesthetics" means flowers; sculpture; lynching; novels; bodily sensation; and esperanto. Nevertheless; there are sharp sub-arguments in this book and many fascinating discussions that offer a textured look at the period of about 1880-1930.
