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 II
BORDERS (Part II) Border abolition now! Time expands and contracts. The twenty-first century after and between Trump’s inauguration and inauguration blinks—on and off, off and on. The long tail of a tale until tal cual “she sat in her […] room, sharpening…” BORDERS II bookends borderS I (issue #08), but does not foreclose it; […]
Recent Entries
(view archive)| Author | Type | Title | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guillermo Gómez-Peña / Balitronica Gomez |
theatre
1 Response |
Goodbye America; I’m going SouthBorders II |
Goodbye America, me voy. Adios Estados Undidos en el Temor. Adios soldados, Terminators, War on Terror |
| Alexandro Segade |
theatre
1 Response |
Cartas DespedidasBorders II |
Haciendo un recuento de mi vida Mi única falta de gravedad Es no confiar más en ti |
| Lily Hoang |
theatre
1 Response |
Egretta tricolorBorders II |
The whole congregation judges him, the new guy. They say he’s cocky—hardy har the irony, of course, being that he, like everyone else here, lacks external genitalia—and they have a million more complaints about him, too, starting with each and every feather on his body. Count them up, and maybe it’s not a full million, but who has the patience to go counting feathers? |
| Tim Murray, Renate Ferro |
theatre
1 Response |
Specters of the Enemy WithinBorders II |
As residents of Upstate New York we are marked by the fraught specters of the border and enemy within. Trump’s antagonistic struggle with neighboring Canada, 170 miles north, summons the complexity of the disturbing phantoms haunting the land on which we live. From New York to Canada, the fraught apparitions of the rent promises of history arise at every crossing. |
| Amie Elizabeth Parry, Laura Pérez León |
theatre
1 Response |
Border DilemmaBorders II |
Amie dear, I would like you to go to the blue track of the university, and respond to the questions: How do you perceive yourself? How do you perceive other people? How do you perceive Laura? |
| Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman |
theatre
1 Response |
Nation Against NatureBorders II |
The conflicts we experience locally between nation and nature are reproduced again and again along the entire trajectory of the continental border between the US and Mexico. Aerial photos documenting precise moments along the trajectory of the continental border between the US and Mexico when the border wall collides with natural systems – nation against nature -- illustrating powerfully what dumb nineteenth-century sovereignty looks like when its “hits the ground” in a complex bioregion. |
| Jennifer Firestone, Wendy Xu |
theatre
1 Response |
EfflorescenceBorders II |
How can I explain to a pedestrian the joy of riding my bicycle through the drippy streets at night, my single headlight bobbing, the light sharp on one side, cuts through a tree having a dream of itself, everything tethered to its twin-dark, thoughts cast a shadow, shadows cast a word if you lower yourself to a hush, the word is ordinary like a word, is cabbage. Sometimes smoke. |
| Edgar Garcia, Daniel Borzutzky |
theatre
1 Response |
Block of Ice (#308)Borders II |
Agent #1110 shows me a video on his cell phone of a coyote running down my street The camera follows a coyote who attacks a dog that used to belong to my neighbor The coyote attacks a squirrel, a cat, and a yard full of illegal chickens |
| micha cárdenas |
theatre
1 Response |
Biohacking/BorderhackingBorders II |
She sat in her hotel room, looking through the window at the border checkpoint into Mexicali, sharpening her fangs. Her silver tooth extension implants were not the very latest fashion in biohacking, but they were still one of her favorites. |
| Las Hermanas Iglesias |
theatre
1 Response |
Child-rearingBorders II |
People who have been pregnant host at least three unique cell populations—their own, their gestational parents, and any children they have carried. |