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.
Featured Theatre
Worstward HoClick on the title above to find our first featured theatre: a memory poem from the theatre theorist and poet Andrew Sofer. It braids strands of Samuel Beckett's childhood with threads of the writer's own making many decades hence. These six quatrains--the last appended by an abortive half-line that opens an unanswered call across generation and degeneration--wear the formal costume of a rondeau redoublé, a 16th century poetic invention that repeats entire lines and works around a single pair of rhymes. Even so, they flow with the ease of the everyday. Many who read Beckett feel this tidal give and take between extreme constraint and familiar stream; many who read Beckett feel his words infecting their own habits and recollections. In this way, as in so many ways, the great writer found his home in the theatre--that time-honored memory machine. So, too, Sofer's poem places us within the most intimate of black boxes: childhood.
Open
This marks our second issue featuring unsolicited work. Contributors hail from five continents and a range of disciplines. They include a handful of authors who have published with us in the past, but the majority are new to these pages. As an “open” issue, it lacks a guiding subject and heads instead for untrammeled fields; […]
Recent Entries
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Andrew Sofer |
theatre
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Worstward Ho |
The father and his child plod somehow on past Croker’s Acres, down the fields and lanes. |
Jared Onyango | gloss |
Time lost along the way: Gone or Lost? : GlossIn response to Time lost along the way: Gone or Lost? |
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Nevena Mrdjenovic | gloss |
Goodbye… a note from a country that no longer exists : GlossIn response to Goodbye… a note from a country that no longer exists |
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Rudi Goblen |
theatre
1 Response |
Kid Ends PlayOpen |
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Diane Glancy | gloss |
Cubist Theater : GlossIn response to Cubist Theater |
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beck haberstroh |
theatre
1 Response |
Someone has to take out the garbageOpen |
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Yanira Castro |
theatre
1 Response |
ExorcismOpen |
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Patrick Scorese | gloss |
Remembered Theatres : GlossIn response to Remembered Theatres |
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Yijie Liu | gloss |
Crankie : GlossIn response to Crankie |
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Katie Schetlick and Zena Bibler |
theatre
1 Response |
Performance strategies for more-than-human audiencesOpen |