Jarring Voices: Preserving and Releasing Memory in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pickling (1988)
The playlet Pickling, presented by its author as an irresolvable equation between “spending time/saving time”, features a single character post-poning the beginning of her own performance, surrounded by jars containing memories and used as musical instruments to resurrect lost voices. Parks builds t...
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| description | The playlet Pickling, presented by its author as an irresolvable equation between “spending time/saving time”, features a single character post-poning the beginning of her own performance, surrounded by jars containing memories and used as musical instruments to resurrect lost voices. Parks builds the work around a series of contradictions: refusing to perform still amounts to performing, albeit a different production, preserving pickled parts implies a physical transformation, then casting doubts as to the quality and legitimacy of the artifact compared to the original, etc. The tightening/opening up of the jars takes on a metaphorical, metatheatrical dimension typical of Parks' obsessively self-referential oeuvre. The juxtaposition of logical impossibilities turns the work into a hermeneutical quandary, leaving the equation unresolved: is Miss Miss a self-parody of or foil for Parks? Both and neither. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8f9c8631c45547069b78c0e35516b0002025-01-30T13:46:50ZengCentre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"Sillages Critiques1272-38191969-63022013-06-011610.4000/sillagescritiques.3073Jarring Voices: Preserving and Releasing Memory in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pickling (1988)Marie PecorariThe playlet Pickling, presented by its author as an irresolvable equation between “spending time/saving time”, features a single character post-poning the beginning of her own performance, surrounded by jars containing memories and used as musical instruments to resurrect lost voices. Parks builds the work around a series of contradictions: refusing to perform still amounts to performing, albeit a different production, preserving pickled parts implies a physical transformation, then casting doubts as to the quality and legitimacy of the artifact compared to the original, etc. The tightening/opening up of the jars takes on a metaphorical, metatheatrical dimension typical of Parks' obsessively self-referential oeuvre. The juxtaposition of logical impossibilities turns the work into a hermeneutical quandary, leaving the equation unresolved: is Miss Miss a self-parody of or foil for Parks? Both and neither.https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/3073voiceperformanceAmerican theatredramaturgymemorySuzan-Lori Parks |
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| title | Jarring Voices: Preserving and Releasing Memory in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pickling (1988) |
| title_full | Jarring Voices: Preserving and Releasing Memory in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pickling (1988) |
| title_fullStr | Jarring Voices: Preserving and Releasing Memory in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pickling (1988) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Jarring Voices: Preserving and Releasing Memory in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pickling (1988) |
| title_short | Jarring Voices: Preserving and Releasing Memory in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pickling (1988) |
| title_sort | jarring voices preserving and releasing memory in suzan lori parks pickling 1988 |
| topic | voice performance American theatre dramaturgy memory Suzan-Lori Parks |
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