Circle Mirror Transformation - Acting Edition

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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0822224453 
ISBN 13
9780822224457 
Category
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Publication Year
2010 
Pages
72 
Description
Thanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start. Five lost people come together at a community centre class to try and find some meaning in their lives. Counting to ten can be harder than you think. Over six tangled weeks their lives become knotted together in this tender and funny play. Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the 2010 Obie Award for Best New American Play. It was voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by the New York Times, Time Out and the New Yorker. It premiered in the UK as part of the Royal Court's Theatre Local strand of site specific productions across London. - from Amzon 
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Rachael Attanasio
The second play I've read by Baker. It was a very sweet play filled with the everyday struggles and awkwardnesses of people. The only setting is the classroom in the community center that they meet in once a week for acting classes. Through the simple acting exercises they perform in the classes, they reveal the greater drama of their lives outside of the classroom, one woman running away from her abusive ex-boyfriend, another man just divorced from his wife, a teenage girl with dreams of being a famous actress, an older man, and his wife who teaches the class.

At the same time, the everydayness of the struggles and the familiarity of the situation of the acting classroom did not make the play boring or easily imitated as it possesses enough overt tension between characters to keep the story moving forward and enough of that rawness and openness that is present in every acting class, while at the same time maintaining a quiet subtly.
5 years ago

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