Anthropomorphism

A scene from Little Shop of Horrors:

A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia:



An actress performs the role of a canine, Sylvia, a stray who befriends a middle-aged man looking for companionship – and finding it with a dog.
 

Re-contextualization

Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment:



Young Jean Lee writes and directs a satirical black-identity play, The Shipment.  “Ms. Lee sets you thinking about how we unconsciously process experience,” wrote Charles Isherwood in his 2009 N Y Times review, “ at the theatre, or in life – throught he filter of racial politics.”

Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade:



The title of this play, in which the Marquis de Sade reenacts violent scenes from the French Revolution, is The persecution and assassination of Jean Paul Marat as performed by the inmates at the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade.
 

Bricolage

Charles Mee's Bobrauschenbergamerica:



Anne Bogart directs The SITI Company in a production of a collage play about a collagist, visual artist Bob Rauschenberg.  This promotional video includes a speech from the script that underscores the effect of bricolage as an artistic methodology.


Charles Mee's Under Construction:



This interview with playwright Charles Mee features production photographs that illustrate points about collage plays discussed by Mee on camera.