#Jen Silverman

[zuzuspells]

"Our books, plays, films and TV shows can do the most for us when they don’t serve as moral instruction manuals but allow us to glimpse our own hidden capacities, the slippery social contracts inside which we function, and the contradictions we all contain." [gift article]

[whatsaterrarium]

Is there any demand, any at all, for a Jen Silverman fan club?

[do-you-know-this-play]

[libraryleopard]

just watched a production of witch by jen silverman and OUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i'm literally a changed woman

[walkingdetroit]

Witch

[dxppercxdxver]

YEAHHHHH WOOOOO IT'S ANOTHER STORY ABOUT EATING THE THINGS YOU LOVE LET'S GO BITCHES

[bermudianabroad]

While I typically share the progressive political views of my students, I’m troubled by their concern for righteousness over complexity. [...] We need more narratives that tell us the truth about how complex our world is. We need stories that help us name and accept paradoxes, not ones that erase or ignore them. ... the more we cultivate audiences who believe that the job of art is to instruct instead of investigate, to judge instead of question, to seek easy clarity instead of holding multiple uncertainties, the more we will find ourselves inside a culture defined by rigidity, knee-jerk judgments and incuriosity.

Jen Silverman, Art Isn't Supposed to Make You Comfortable April 28th, 2024 in The New York Times

[daphneblakess]

books i read in 2022: we play ourselves by jen silverman

In the end, we are all entirely summed up by our single most public failure, and not by any of the nuanced, beautiful, difficult things we accomplished before or after.

[judgingbooksbycovers]

We Play Ourselves: A Novel

By Jen Silverman.

Design by Rachel Ake Kuech.

[shealwaysreads]

“Art is the realm of the problem.”

don’t make me tap the jen silverman essay!!!!

[frontmezzjunkies]

Broadway's "The Roommate" Entertains with Surprising Slowly Unpacked Boxes

#theroommatebway #frontmezzjunkies reviews: @theroommatebway a #newplay by #JenSilverman directed by #JackOBrien starring #MiaFarrow & #PattiLuPone #theroommate #Broadway

Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow in Broadway’s The Roommate. Photo by Matthew Murphy. The Broadway Theatre Review: Jen Silverman’s The Roommate By Ross With only corn and wide open spaces surrounding this framing, The Roommate, a new play by Jen Silverman (Spain), unpacks itself, somewhat casually and over time, before us. It’s an entertaining enjoyable concoction that we have been gifted, with…

[bookjotter6865]

Winding Up the Week #375

An end of week recap “Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.” – Mary Wollstonecraft (born 27th April 1759) This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various…

[do-you-know-this-play]

[oracleofmadness]

This has dual timelines focusing on an intriguing topic, protests and relationships. Minnow is in 2018 and Keen in 1968. Both have similarities but are dealing with completely different areas. I found this to be incredibly interesting.

Great writing and fantastic characters. However, I can't say I loved the characters themselves. It's definitely a love-hate relationship there. I feel like this story is missing something, particularly with it ending the way it did. But, I can't help but recommend this as a wonderful piece of fiction.

Out April 9, 2024!

Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!

[no-where-new-hero]

Following the success of @gogandmagog's request for an Emily's "What's in my bag" and @those-things-we-said's suggestion we do a series, I present:

Ilse Burnley: What's in my Bag?

First, the bag. Ilse Burnley the acclaimed woman of the stage would absolutely carry something high end. Maybe not as far as a Birkin, but it would have a Brand that Proclaims Itself. This would have been Teddy's engagement gift instead of a designer dog lol. She would make sure all the paparazzi snap her while she's carrying this. However, Ilse Burnley of Blair Water goes around with a canvas tote, block-printed with "Caterwauling Quadruped" that Emily and Teddy gifted her as a joke, capable of holding everything and the kitchen sink. The outside of the tote bag would be decorated with pronoun pins and other provocative slogans; the fancy Brand Bag would have maybe one charm hanging from the handle.

In both bags, she'd always carry her essentials: phone, wallet, keys, makeup. This is all going in willy-nilly, though; no discrete bags or cases for her, so the wallet will have a smear of eyeliner on it, and the phone screen will be scratched by her keys. Ilse strikes me as an Android girl; she'd be fiercely anti-Apple. Wallet (made of vegan leather) would contain wads of cash, credit cards, and bus passes; a driver's license that she uses only because she gets carded buying alcohol but not because she actually drives (she's a passenger princess and public transport pro); member cards at all the stores because she loves herself a discount; a photograph of Perry with his faced carved out of it (but that's only because she keeps his face in a locket charm bracelet). She also has a recycled Blue-Q coin purse that says "Safe Sex" just to horrify the New Moon aunts (she keeps condoms in it. For herself, mostly, but she has been known to leave one or two in public bathrooms for those in need). Finally, makeup wise: intensely scented roller perfume for her wrists and neck, chapstick (cherry flavored--iykyk), eyeliner and mascara for quick touchups, and a lipstick tube she almost never opens.

In terms of non-personal items, she'd absolutely carry a play script around with her at all times. One will be whatever project she's currently acting in; the others would be Samuel French editions of her devoted idols (Jen Silverman--she staged The Moors during her time at Shrewsbury), her controversial faves (Caryl Churchill--these copies are angrily annotated), and whoever else is up and coming. She'd keep highlighters in two or three colors in her bag for reading and annotating (her color code is erratic and inconsistent) and of course it has no pencil case.

Other ephemera: postcards half-written and addressed to Emily, Teddy, and Perry from wherever she is; leaves or flowers she picked up in parks that remind her of home; jewelry she had gone out of the house wearing and then decided didn't go with her outfit after all.

This was so fun! Ilse has such a modern flair this really worked for her, I thought! Let me know if you want me to do any more! I slightly want to do Evelyn Blake lol

[saderplate7]

i've never been the only person in a fandom before.