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La Divina Caricatura

Bunraku Meets Motown

This unique book is a graphic novel and performance poem, a mixed-media musical cartoon, an animated feature film come to life. Lee Breuer’s La Divina Caricatura is in the pataphysical tradition of Alfred Jarry—if Jarry had been a Dante fan. In this play we meet unforgettable characters: Rose the Dog, who thinks she is a woman; her lover John, a junkie filmmaker; Ponzi Porco, PhD, a pig in love with the New York Times; and the Warrior Ant, who, to impress his father, Trotsky the Termite, declares the “perpetual revolution” of the bugs of the fifth world. Each a soul on its own pilgrimage, seldom with a Virgil or a Beatrice to guide them, they often try to guide each other, only to get more lost. A dazzling, comic, potent mix of ideas and character, invention and reality, the plays in La Divina Caricatura reinvigorate the stage for our time.
 

222 pages | 32 color plates | 6 x 9 | © 2018

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Table of Contents

“If You See Something, Say Something”
BEATRIZ SCHILLER

Illusions, Reality and Performance in the Imagination of Lee Breuer :
An Introduction
ARTHUR J. SABATINI

Preface

SHAGGY DOG ANIMATION

ECCO PORCO

AN EPIDOG

PORCO MORTO

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