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Craig, Jason; Bell, Gelsey

doi:10.1162/DRAM_a_00627

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Jason Craig,

Jason Craig

Jason Craig’s plays include Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage, Beardo, The Sewers, Sandwich—a musical about killing animals, The Fall & Rise of The Rising Fallen, and Space//Space. The majority of his plays have been produced by Banana Bag & Bodice, a New York theatre company for which he is co-artistic director with his wife, Jessica Jelliffe. He is the recipient of the Will Glickman Award and the Herald Angel Award.

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Gelsey Bell

Gelsey Bell is a New York City-based singer, songwriter, and scholar. Her articles have appeared in TDR, Tempo, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, and Movement Research Performance Journal. She is currently completing a book on voice and experimental music. She has a PhD from NYU in Performance Studies, and is the Critical Acts Coeditor for TDR and the Reviews Editor for The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies. As a singer and performance creator, she is a core member of thingNY and Varispeed and has presented her work internationally. www.gelseybell.comgelseybell@gmail.com

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Jason Craig

Jason Craig’s plays include Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage, Beardo, The Sewers, Sandwich—a musical about killing animals, The Fall & Rise of The Rising Fallen, and Space//Space. The majority of his plays have been produced by Banana Bag & Bodice, a New York theatre company for which he is co-artistic director with his wife, Jessica Jelliffe. He is the recipient of the Will Glickman Award and the Herald Angel Award.

Gelsey Bell

Gelsey Bell is a New York City-based singer, songwriter, and scholar. Her articles have appeared in TDR, Tempo, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, and Movement Research Performance Journal. She is currently completing a book on voice and experimental music. She has a PhD from NYU in Performance Studies, and is the Critical Acts Coeditor for TDR and the Reviews Editor for The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies. As a singer and performance creator, she is a core member of thingNY and Varispeed and has presented her work internationally. www.gelseybell.comgelseybell@gmail.com

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2017

TDR/The Drama Review (2017) 61 (1 (233)): 124–160.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00627

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An aged master storyteller, Mother spins a hilarious and unbelievable yarn of her life story, from cow pastures to pirate ships to canine space travel, while her two adult sons listen with rapturous attention or exasperation. Jason Craig’s latest play, developed with actor Jessica Jelliffe and their celebrated theatre company Banana Bag & Bodice, asks what the value of a good story is, regardless of its relationship to the truth.

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