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Is she mad, or does she joke

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ID12369529
AuthorsMelanie Kitchens O’Meara (Augusta University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume44
Issue3
Pages177-221
Publication date2023-09-25
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueText and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10462937.2023.2250413
OpenAlexW4387025030
LanguageEN
References cited3

Is She Mad, or Does She Joke is an ensemble performance piece I scripted based on my almost twenty-year fascination with the Countess de Castiglione and her photograph Scherzo di Follia. I directed the show with a cast of 10 student performers at Augusta University in the fall of 2021.KEYWORDS: Countess de CastiglioneScherzo di Folliaportrait photographyperformancescript Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 To see the video, along with other footage and photographs from the rehearsal process and show, check out @TheatreAUG on Instagram from July to November 2021.2 Each performer had their own carte-de-visite that featured them posing as the Countess with a word like "Narcissist, Mad, or Feminist" and included details for the show. We handed them out for promotion, and the performers traded and passed them out in this scene. They are posted on the Instagram account.3 See Figure 1 in my artist statement "The Countess holds me."4 This poem was included in Patricia Pace's adaptation of Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market," which I performed in as an undergraduate. I took it from Pace's script but was able to locate a source online, p. 283 of Derek B. Scott's Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Summer Program

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Joke · Literature · Pace · Performance art · Period (music · Romance · Scholarship · Visual arts · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Law · Theater, Performance, and Music History · Theatre and Performance Studies

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