{"id":11184,"date":"2022-08-14T16:13:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T20:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chra.bard.edu\/?p=11184"},"modified":"2022-10-18T11:01:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T15:01:03","slug":"masterclass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/news\/masterclass\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRA Team Member and Artist Adrienne Truscott Receives Fringe First Writing Award for \u201cMasterclass\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"CHRA\u2019s <\/span>Adrienne Truscott<\/span><\/a> recently showed and performed in <\/span>MASTERCLASS<\/span><\/i>, a collaboration between her and Dublin theatre-makers <\/span>Brokentalkers<\/span><\/a>, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The work received a Fringe First award which recognizes outstanding new writing premiered at the festival. Established in 1973, the Fringe Firsts are recognized all over the world and are the most prestigious theatre awards at the festival.<\/span><\/p>\n

MASTERCLASS<\/span><\/i> was critically acclaimed, with<\/span> The Guardian<\/span><\/i><\/a> describing it as \u201cscoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult\u201d, and <\/span>The List<\/span><\/i><\/a> calling it \u201ca stunning dissection of patriarchy, privilege and performance in a forceful work about sanctified male writers.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The piece is a satirical performance interrogating gender and power structures in today\u2019s world, with theatre as a metaphor. Using real life examples of unnamed divisive but celebrated playwrights, <\/span>MASTERCLASS<\/span><\/i> combines existing footage, publications, and interviews to let these very artists reveal uncomfortable truths about themselves, and by extension, about our culture. The performance begins with an interview with a \u2018master\u2019 playwright, subverting the trope the masterclass: the sycophantic relationship between \u2018interviewer\u2019 and \u2018artist\u2019; the casual self-mythologizing of and aligning with canonical \u2018greats\u2019 that have gone before. <\/span>MASTERCLASS begins as a <\/span><\/i>parody of the celebrated lineage of the great male artist, but there is something else at play, and something very serious at stake.<\/span><\/p>\n

Formally, the piece is playful and absurdist, using text, music, drag, and movement to challenge the audience at every turn. <\/span>MASTERCLASS <\/span><\/i>blends the fearless and savagely comedic feminist discourse for which Truscott is so well known with the subversive and formally slippery dramaturgy that is a hallmark of Brokentalkers\u2019 work.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHRA\u2019s Adrienne Truscott recently showed and performed in MASTERCLASS, a collaboration between her and Dublin theatre-makers Brokentalkers, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The work received a Fringe First award which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11196,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184\/revisions\/11196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}