{"id":698,"date":"2018-12-04T12:39:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T12:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/18\/?p=698"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:41:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T16:41:49","slug":"the-time-of-our-lives-interview-with-bonnie-marranca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/18\/the-time-of-our-lives-interview-with-bonnie-marranca\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time of Our Lives:\u00a0Interview with Bonnie Marranca"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Savas Patsalidis<\/strong>*<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bonnie Marranca. Photo: Austin Klein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bonnie\u00a0Marranca is founding editor and publisher of the Obie-Award-winning\u00a0PAJ Publications\/PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0More than 155 books in the field have been published by the press, including 1,000 plays and performance texts\u00a0from more than twenty languages. To date, 122 issues of the journal are in print. Published authors of the press include Heiner M\u00fcller, Sam Shepard, Maria Irene Fornes, Elfriede Jelinek, R.W. Fassbinder,\u00a0Gianina\u00a0Carbunariu, Marguerite Duras, Vaclav Havel, The Wooster Group, Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman,\u00a0Ivana\u00a0Sjaiko, Juan Mayorga, Adrienne Kennedy, Richard Maxwell,\u00a0and essays by Victor Turner, Richard\u00a0Schechner,\u00a0Herbert Blau, Tadeusz Kantor, Yvonne Rainer.\u00a0She is a recipient of the ATHE Excellence in Editing Award for Sustained Achievement.<\/p>\n

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Bonnie\u00a0Marranca\u00a0is the author of\u00a0three volumes of essays:\u00a0Performance Histories<\/em>,\u00a0Ecologies of Theatre<\/em>, and\u00a0Theatrewritings<\/em>, which received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism<\/a>. She has also edited many\u00a0collections of\u00a0plays, essays and interviews, including\u00a0The Sun on the Tongue<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(Etel\u00a0Adnan),\u00a0Conversations with Meredith Monk<\/em>,\u00a0New Europe: Plays from the Continent, Plays for the End of the Century<\/em>,\u00a0Interculturalism<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>and Performance<\/em> and\u00a0Conversations<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>on Art and Performance<\/em>.\u00a0Her first book,\u00a0The Theatre of<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Images,\u00a0is\u00a0a seminal work on American theatre.\u00a0Among her literary anthologies are\u00a0A Slice of Life: Contemporary Writers on Food<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0American Garden Writing.<\/em>\u00a0Her writings are translated into\u00a0more than twenty languages.<\/p>\n