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For a quarter century, Tim Miller has worked at the intersection of performance, politics, and identity, using his personal experiences to create entertaining but pointed explorations of life as a gay American man—from the perils and joys of sex and relationships to the struggles of political disenfranchisement and artistic censorship. This intimate autobiographical collage of Miller's professional and personal life reveals one of the celebrated creators of a crucial contemporary art form and a tireless advocate for the American dream of political equality for all citizens.
Here we have the most complete Miller yet—a raucous collection of his performance scripts, essays, interviews, journal entries, and photographs, as well as his most recent stage piece Us. This volume brings together the personal, communal, and national political strands that interweave through his work from its beginnings and ultimately define Miller's place as a contemporary artist, activist, and gay man.
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Antitheatricality and the Body Public
Situating the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and conflicts, Lisa A. Freeman asserts that antitheatrical incidents from the English Renaissance to present-day America provide us with occasions to trace major struggles over the nature and balance of power and political authority. In studies of William Prynne's Histrio-mastix (1633), Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), John Home's Douglas (1757), the burning of the theater at Richmond (1811), and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley (1998) Freeman engages in a careful examination of the political, religious, philosophical, literary, and dramatic contexts in which challenges to theatricality unfold. In so doing, she demonstrates that however differently \"the public\" might be defined in each epoch, what lies at the heart of antitheatrical disputes is a struggle over the character of the body politic that governs a nation and the bodies public that could be said to represent that nation.By situating antitheatrical incidents as rich and interpretable cultural performances, Freeman seeks to account fully for the significance of these particular historical conflicts. She delineates when, why, and how anxieties about representation manifest themselves, and traces the actual politics that govern such ostensibly aesthetic and moral debates even today.
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‘Glory Box’: Tim Miller's Autobiography of the Future
Performance artist Tim Miller has been making autobiographical work for more than twenty years. Dee Heddon explores Miller's recent show, Glory Box (2001), arguing that, both in his practice and his use of his own life stories, he is attempting not only to connect with but to energize his audiences, transforming them into activist spectators. One tactic Miller employs in Glory Box is futurity – performing an autobiography that he has not yet lived. This future is one that Miller compels us collectively to rewrite, inviting us to change his potential life and life-story in the process. Dee Heddon argues that Miller's commitment to and faith in the transformative potential of live performance enacts a resistance to those pejorative terms too easily thrown at autobiographical performance: Miller may work from his ‘self’, but his work is far from solipsistic, egotistic, or narcissistic. Dee Heddon makes and teaches autobiographical performance, and her writing has appeared in Performance Research, Studies in Theatre Production, Research in Drama Education, Reconstructions, and M/C. Her Devising Performances: Histories and Practices, co-authored with Jane Milling, is forthcoming from Palgrave.
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US
Wilcox reviews a performance of Tim Miller's Us and performed at Sotheastern Center for Contemporary Arts in Winston-Salem NC.
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Performance Anxiety: 'Identity,' 'Community,' and Tim Miller's My Queer Body
The use of the male body in theater as a sexual object is discussed. Other men who break the taboo of looking at the male body are punished.
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NARRATIVE AND NUDITY
Performance artist Tim Miller is interviewed. He discusses performing nude in his acts, his book \"Shirts & Skin\" and whether he is a gay Everyman.
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Theatre Review: National Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival
Kathryn Keller reviews several works performed at the first National Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival at the Alice B. Theater in Seattle, including \"Little Women--The Tragedy,\" Tim Miller's \"Sex/Love/Stories\" and Holly Hughes' \"World Without End.\"
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The NEA four go to Washington
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on whether the government may pose standards of decency on artists who receive public funds in \"The National Endowment for the Arts vs. Finley.\" The original lawsuit was brought by the \"NEA Four\"--Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, and John Fleck.
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