PAJ Publications

03/08/2025

If there is any consolation on this sad occasion, it is knowing that Bob Wilson died in his own home in his own bed in his own country, at his beloved Water Mill. He had just written me in June that he was preparing Tristan and Isolde for Ljubljana and was looking forward to the summer at Watermill.

17/01/2025

To join in celebrating the life and work of RICHARD FOREMAN, PAJ is making available online his last play, Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey, which was published in our spring issue. It was performed at La Mama by The Object Collection last month.
Available here:

One of Object Collection’s earliest performances, in 2004, was an excerpt from my found text-collaged script Is This a Gentleman? performed at Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater as a part of their downstairs work-in-progress series. This was the beginning of a long history of concent...

20/11/2024

PAJ Publications New Fall Title: The Antitheatrical Prejudice by Jonas Barish

Available to purchase here: https://indiepubs.com/products/the-antitheatrical-prejudice-new-edition/

The long out-of-print modern classic, The Antitheatrical Prejudice, will be published November 19 by PAJ Publications, with a new Foreword by Joseph Roach. One of the great books in theatre studies, often described by readers as life-changing, will now be available for a new generation of readers and scholars. The volume is essential reading today when theatricality, antitheatricality, and performativity are once again provocative issues playing out across contemporary culture and the arts.

The Antitheatrical Prejudice is essential reading today when theatricality, antitheatricality, and performativity are once again provocative issues playing out across contemporary culture and the arts. The original edition was published in 1981. The new edition includes a Foreword by Joseph Roach, t...

14/10/2024

PAJ 138 Final Issue Available Now: https://direct.mit.edu/pajj/issue/46/3%20(138)

Dear Readers:

After more than four decades since founding PAJ, I have decided to end my editorship of the journal, which will cease publication with this issue. As I write in the editorial, “working with many of the great theatre and literary minds, experiencing the work of the most influential contemporary artists, helping writers to establish an individual voice, and simply having the great good fortune of a public forum, the opportunity of editing the journal has given me a life of tremendous joy and enrichment.” It is my wish that you find in the pages of this issue new ways of writing and thinking, alongside the personal dimensions of many of our long-time contributors, that offer pieces from the heart.

Our book division will continue to be active, with nearly fifty titles still in print. It is my pleasure to announce that we have secured the rights to publish the long out-of-print classic, "The Antitheatrical Prejudice," by Jonas Barish, for release in November. A major step forward of the press is the recent acquisition of the PAJ Publications Archive and my Personal Papers by the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, opening to researchers in early 2025.

Elsewhere in my editorial, I reflect: “The journal began with a strong desire to engage the developing new forms of theatre, performance and video art, dance, and music outside the mainstream. It is gratifying to know that over the decades the ecology of this community has evolved in its pages to contribute to the ongoing writing and documentation of theatre and performance histories. Editing PAJ has been a wonderful conservationist endeavor."

20/05/2023

Now Available from MIT Press Direct and Project Muse:

PAJ 134, Volume 45, Number 2, May 2023

Read it here: https://direct.mit.edu/pajj/issue/45/2%20(134)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A GATHERING SPIRIT
The Franconia Performance Salon, 2011–2020
Michael Hunter

SPIRITUALITIES

THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES
Bonnie Marranca

SPLENDOUR, GLORIOUS SPLENDOUR
Nick Cave

GREAT LIGHTS, SEEN IN DARKNESS
The Passion of Milo Rau and Yvan Sagnet
Joseph Cermatori

SPIRIT IN THE (MONOCHROMATIC) LIGHT
Isaiah Matthew Wooden

THE SHAPE OF LIGHT
Meditations on Hong Kong
Joanna Mansbridge

BELIEF SYSTEMS
Ferhat Özgür

BAD TRIPS
Spiritual Agonies and Ecstasies in the Films of Gaspar Noé
Julia Sirmons

METAPHYSICAL MOVEMENT
Jelili Atiku in conversation with Akin Oladimeji

CHEN ZHEN
The Sound of the Life Force
Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky

SOUNDING THE GOSPEL PLAY
Rebecca Kastleman

OBERAMMERGAU DIALOGUE
Matt Cornish and Don Hinchey

GRACE NOTES
Richard Landry

BEYOND THE SPECIES AND BEYOND DEATH
Staging Mozart’s Requiem
Romeo Castellucci in conversation with Piersandra Di Matteo

THE POSTSECULAR THEATRE OF ROMEO CASTELLUCCI
Dana Tanner-Kennedy

NOTES FROM MY JOURNALS
Joan Jonas

PLAY

SWALLOW
(First Corinthians)
Erik Ehn

ART & PERFORMANCE NOTES

MOBILIZING DANCE ARCHIVES OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
Andrej Mirčev
The Absolute Dance: Female Dancers in the Weimar Republic, exhibition, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany

MEG STUART AND ANNA TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER
Exercises in Endurance
Kate Bredeson
Cascade, a dance by Meg Stuart, Centre Pompidou, Festival d’Automne, Paris, France; The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, a dance by Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker, Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg, Rotterdam, Netherlands

VERY VERY IMPORTANT SALVATION
Johannes Birringer
Very Very Important Fish, a video by Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salinas, Territories of Waste: On the Return of the Repressed, exhibition, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland; The Ghosts Are Returning, a performance by Group50:50, Schaubühne Lindenfels, euro-scene Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

BOOKS & COMPANY

ARTAUD AND AMERICAN ARTISTS
Arthur J. Sabatini
No More Masterpieces: Modern Art after Artaud by Lucy Bradnock

GOOD VIBRATIONS
Scott T. Cummings
The Art of Resonance by Anne Bogart

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art covers theatre, dance, sound, media, music, writing & visual a

01/02/2023

PAJ 133 Now Available!
https://direct.mit.edu/pajj/issue/45/1%20(133)

Read Free Articles Here:

Introduction
https://direct.mit.edu/pajj/article/45/1%20(133)/10/114399/Introduction

Amal’s New York Journey: The Big Puppet in the Big Apple
https://direct.mit.edu/pajj/article/45/1%20(133)/12/114391/Little-Amal-s-New-York-Journey-The-Big-Puppet-inLittle