imagined
Theatres
An open access journal that puts theory itself onstage.
As an extension of the book Imagined Theatres: writing for a theoretical stage, this site collects hypothetical performances written by an ever-growing array of theorists and artists of the contemporary stage. These dramatic fragments, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary events to explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre.
Borders
In this ever-lengthening period of manufactured crisis relative to the Mexico-US border, borderS focuses on borderlands, expansively defined. Ten contributions in Spanishes, Englishes, and Spanglishes paired with ten glosses in a comparable translanguaging range, assume the form/s and shape/s of the sonic, the visual, the written… y más!
Recent Entries
(view archive)| Author | Type | Title | Excerpt |
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| Omar Pimienta |
theatre
1 Response |
Lázaro comienza a llorar en medio de la nocheBorders |
De la nada sale del sueño, de un sueño profundo, y explota en llanto. Nos despierta a Granola y a mí y tratamos de reconfortarlo, primero sin saber cómo y poco a poco, con el paso de los días, con consejos de gente viva que a su vez se lo dijo alguien que ya murió. Es el estómago, le duele al pasar gas. |
| Alaric López |
theatre
1 Response |
-o / -a / -xBorders |
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| Isidro Pérez García |
theatre
1 Response |
Un Mojado Azteca Desahogándose en el NorteBorders |
Materials: scaffold, ocelotl mask, self-portrait gloves, “Dreamer” maxtlatl, punching bag with miquiztli atltlachinolli, and Goodwill boxing shoes |
| Rosalía Romero |
theatre
1 Response |
Interference and Performance Art at the Mexicali-Calexico BorderBorders |
A lone singer belts out ballads about heartbreak, boombox strapped to his body. He’s on the border in Mexicali, working Cristóbal Colón at Parque Héroes de Chapultepec. |
| Cog•nate Collective |
theatre
1 Response |
Sketches Relating to a LineBorders |
Remember that your body will be perceived as a potential threat before it will be perceived as the home where you reside. That is to say, you will be thought of as hard and machine-like and capable of violence before you will be thought of as irreverent, kind, funny or complicated—the things your body is capable of will be overdetermined by the fear of your Otherness. |
| Lorena Gómez Mostajo |
theatre
1 Response |
A comet entersBorders |
This is a code to bring back the fragments, weaving the same electromagnetic field by opening the mouth de esquina a esquina. |
| robyko ∞ |
theatre
1 Response |
Four States of the BorderBorders |
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| Saúl Hérnandez-Vargas |
theatre
1 Response |
imagen-claraboya / imagen-videnteBorders |
sí, pero, ¿qué es esta imagen? ¿qué captura esta imagen, en blanco y negro, tomada por un fotógrafo anónimo que vivió y trabajó en los últimos años del siglo XIX? ¿qué nos dice aquel paisaje habitado por plantas flacas y testarudas, similares a las crecen entre tijuana y san ysidro? ¿qué nos dicen, si nos dice algo, esa yerba, ese mezquite, ese cadillo? |
| Maribel Bello |
theatre
1 Response |
[:micro borders para territorios alien or fake]Borders |
tiempo: 2024 geografia: Texas-hOU-aUS status: sin residencia origen: México(s) rural y ciudad |
| Zazil Collins |
theatre
1 Response |
Paso del NorteBorders |
EL VIENTO SURGE DEL FUEGO, el fuego se aviva al aire y el fuego se representa en forma de X, X como la X transfronteriza de Sebastián, que es el emblema de Ciudad Juárez y se ubica en la zona norte, a un costado del muro que divide los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. |