Bücher von Jen Silverman

Die Anthologie Internationale queere Dramatik versammelt Theatertexte, die neue Narrative von Geschlecht und Identität wagen. Die Stückauswahl bildet den Versuch eines Querschnitts durch das bestehende Korpus zeitgenössischer Bühnentexte, die Alternativen jenseits der heterosexuellen Norm finden, nicht-binäre Realitäten greifbar machen und einen Einblick in den Status quo der zeitgenössischen Dramatik bieten, die sich unter dem Label "queer" fassen lässt: ein aufschlussreicher Ausschnitt aus dem zeitgenössischen Kanon wichtiger Erzählungen für eine Zukunft, die Differenz zulässt, ohne zu diskriminieren.Raphael Khouri aus Jordanien verhandelt die Lebensgeschichten von Trans*Personen und Homosexuellen in der arabischen Welt. In Dany Boudreaults chorischem Stück wird eine Jugendsünde zum Ausgangspunkt für das plastische Erleben und Erleiden einer Geschlechtsangleichung. Fünf weiße und nicht-weiße, privilegierte und weniger privilegierte Bettys machen sich in Jen Silvermans Stück auf, mit ihrer "Quelle der Kraft" in Verbindung zu treten. Marie Henrys experimentelle Arbeit ist eine Familiengeschichte um Vater und Sohn in Frauenkleidern. In Magne van den Bergs Stück für junges Publikum liefern sich zwei Jugendliche einen Schlagabtausch über starre Geschlechterrollen.Marine Bachelot Nguyen nimmt Begegnungen und Interviews mit vietnamesischen Aktivist*innen und Künstler*innen zum Ausgangspunkt für ein Dokumentarstück über die Verwirklichung persönlicher und politischer Wünsche junger vietnamesischer Mitglieder der LSBTI*-Community. Milja Sarkola verhandelt weibliches* Begehren in einem Text voller Seitenhiebe auf den Theaterbetrieb und seine heterosexistische Ausprägung. Von Ebru Celkan stammt der performative Monolog einer Trans*Frau, die von den Widrigkeiten im Istanbuler Sexarbeiter*innen-Milieu erzählt. Olga Dimitrijevic präsentiert ein klassisches Dialogstück über lesbische Liebe und Trauer im Alter. Mit den Theaterstücken Marine Bachelot Nguyen: Schatten und Lippen (Übersetzung: André Hansen)Dani Boudreault: Wir sind schön für hässliche Leute (Übersetzung: Wolfram Höll)Ebru Celkan: Der Tag nach dem Tag, an dem niemand starb (Übersetzung: Oliver Kontny)Olga Dimitrijevic: Mein Du (Übersetzung: Blazena Radas)Marie Henry: Pink Boys und Old Ladies (Übersetzung: Lisa Wegener)Raphael Khouri: Er Sie Ich (Übersetzung: Paul Spittler)Milja Sarkola: Bühne des Begehrens (Übersetzung: Katja von der Ropp)Jen Silverman: Kollektive Wut (Übersetzung: Barbara Christ)Magne van den Berg: Gender (Übersetzung: Eva Pieper)

'As funny as it's intellectual, this page-turner about crashing and burning is spot-on about ambition, infatuation, theatre, film, ethics, teens, and everything else.' Emma Donoghue, author of Room 'Witty...Earnest...Laugh-out-loud...Pitch-perfect' New York TimesIn the pursuit of fame, how do you know when you've gone too far?When Cass - a thirty-something, promising, queer playwright - receives a prestigious award, it seems as though her career is finally taking off. That is until she finds herself at the centre of a searing public shaming, which relegates her from rising star in New York to a nobody on her best friend's sofa in L.A. As she comes to terms with the extent of her failure, she is forced to question who she is without the thing that has always defined her: her art. So she fills the days by stalking her playwright nemesis, of whom she is excruciatingly envious, and getting pulled into the orbit of the charismatic but manipulative filmmaker next door. As Cass becomes increasingly involved with her neighbour and the group of pugilistic teenage girls she's documenting, Cass begins to dream of a comeback. But when the film spins dangerously out of control, Cass is once again forced to reckon with her ambition, and her rage.We Play Ourselves is a darkly funny novel about the cost of making art, and the art of making enemies. 'Funny, sharp, modern - this is an excellent debut novel. Its bold, edgy, strange heroine has adventures and misadventures, screws up again and again, but somehow won my love. I couldn't put this book down.' Weike Wang, PEN/Hemingway-award winning author of Chemistry

"Minnow Hunter has always tried to lead the life her single father Christopher modeled--private, quiet, hardworking, apolitical. So she is rocked when a split-second decision makes her the extremely public face of a scandal in the small town where she teaches. She even loses the support of her father, who stops speaking to her when the media start harassing him, too. Overwhelmed, Minnow flees to a teaching position in Paris, hoping distance and time will let her start over. But what if Christopher wasn't always the restrained, conservative man he appears? What if he has a troubled and tragic past that he has taken great pains to bury--from the world and from his daughter?"--

A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a "witch" and cast out by the town, but her soul is not so readily bought. As the devil returns to convince her - and then returns again - unexpected passions flare, alliances are formed, and the village is forever changed. An inventive retelling of a Jacobean drama, this sharp, subversive fable debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by.

"...Five absurdist, hilarious, provocative plays exploring everything from power to loneliness to menstruating hippos. The collection contains: Real American Dinner Party - Sometimes you lose your keys, sometimes you lose your temper, and sometimes you lose the most unexpected of things. A particularly tense dinner party can change everything in the blink of an eye; Hippos of the Eastern Enclosure - On Thanksgiving, a nervous male zookeeper is overwhelmed by three female hippos, who all get their periods. While the zookeeper, his girlfriend, and his co-worker decide who is on clean-up, the hippos interrogate the nature of ambition; The Visitations - Dana has been alone in her home for a bit too long. Either she is losing it or she is having an increasingly intimate relationship with a ghost.; Ubu Anew (A Play for Strange People) - A shortened and extremely loose adaptation of Ubu Roi, featuring Pixy Stix and Hillary Clinton; Your Mother in the Night Sky - Your mother leaves a voicemail, the strangest voicemail you've ever received." --

Wink follows unhappy housewife Sofie and her breadwinning husband, Gregor, who both seek weekly counseling from an unorthodox therapist, Doctor Frans. Their current topic of disagreement: the cat, Wink. When Wink goes missing, violent desires, domestic anarchy, and feline vengeance emerge, threatening the neatly ordered reality Sophie, Gregor, and Doctor Frans have constructed.

Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty's busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. And Betty keeps using a small hand mirror to stare into parts of herself she's never examined. Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the "thea-tah."

Sharon, in her mid-fifties, is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn, also in her mid-fifties, needs a place to hide and a chance to start over. But as Sharon begins to uncover Robyn's secrets, they encourage her own deep-seated desire to transform her life completely. A dark comedy about what it takes to re-route your life - and what happens when the wheels come off.

Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.