Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PMR-ART - Softcover

Jacob Wren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1771663898 ISBN 13: 9781771663892

Publisher: Book*hug Press, 2018

Synopsis

Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART is a compelling hybrid of history, memoir, and performance theory. It tells the story of the interdisciplinary performance group PME-ART and their ongoing endeavour to make a new kind of highly collaborative theatre dedicated to the fragile but essential act of ""being yourself in a performance situation."" Written, among other things, to celebrate PME-ART's twentieth anniversary, the book begins when Jacob Wren meets Sylvie Lachance and Richard Ducharme, moves from Toronto to Montreal to make just one project, but instead ends up spending the next twenty years creating an eccentric, often bilingual, art. It is a book about being unable to learn French yet nonetheless remaining co-artistic director of a French-speaking performance group, about the Spinal Tap-like adventures of being continuously on tour, about the rewards and difficulties of intensive collaborations, about making performances that break the mold and confronting the repercussions of doing so. A book that aims to change the rules for how interdisciplinary performance can be written about today.

About this title

About the Author

JACOB WREN makes literature, performances, and exhibitions. His books include Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed; Polyamorous Love Song (finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2014); Rich and Poor (finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2016); Authenticity is a Feeling; and Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim. He is artistic co-director of the Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART. Wren lives in Montreal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771663898
• ISBN 13: 9781771663892
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260