{"product_id":"astrs-paperback","title":"Astrs - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarinne Keithley Syers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rabbit cosmogony, a libretto to be sung, spoken, and projected, a radio-play-folk-opera-duck-animation-with-dances, ASTRS is set in the 53rd State of the Union, zone of the sixth chrysanthemum, where Augustus B. Rabbit and Sibyl Kempson meet in a place where the end times can't seem to wrap it up and the middle times hang around eternally. A pre-middle play by 53rd State's founding editor offers a roadmap to the 53rd State and to the troubled state of the present fifty. It should come as no surprise: in the cosmos, as Keithley writes, associations ring across disances. In the 53rd state they meet in the corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarinne Keithley Syers is a writer and teacher based in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her performance work tends toward an interdisciplinary spectrum, incorporating sound and movement. Plays include \u003cem\u003eA Tunnel Year\u003c\/em\u003e (Chocolate Factory Theater, \u003cbr\u003e2016), \u003cem\u003eAnother Tree Dance\u003c\/em\u003e (Chocolate Factory, 2013), \u003cem\u003eDo Not Do this Ever Again\u003c\/em\u003e (Ice Factory, 2008), \u003cem\u003eTenderenda\u003c\/em\u003e (Danspace Project, 2005), \u003cem\u003eFour Fruits\u003c\/em\u003e (Surf Reality, 2000), and \u003cem\u003eMontgomery Park, or Opulence\u003c\/em\u003e (Incubator Arts Project, 2010), for which she won a New York Dance and Performance \"Bessie\" Award for Outstanding Production. She has been a two-time fellow at The MacDowell Colony, a member of the Soho Rep. Writer\/Director Lab, a two-time member of Puppet Lab at St. Ann's Warehouse, and is grateful to be a member of New Dramatists. She founded 53rd State Press, home to her editorial experiments as a participant-historian of the downtown performance community. She co-founded Ur, a dance palace (2003-5), instigated the playwright think tank Joyce Cho, and co-hosted (with Jason Grote) the Acousmatic Theater Hour on WFMU. She collaborated as a performer, librettist, sound and video designer, and choreographer, with artists including Big Dance Theater, Sara Smith, David Neumann, Young Jean Lee, Sibyl Kempson, Theater of a Two Headed Calf, Chris Yon, The Civilians, and Talking Band. MFA in Playwriting, Brooklyn College (2006); PhD in English, CUNY Graduate Center (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 6 x 4.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 24, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42733398130751,"sku":"9780997866483","price":22.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/afcad10d7390bbee55ac3ad366bd4f8e.webp?v=1765135788","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/astrs-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}