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Publisher: Journals Gateway
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (2024) 46 (3 (138)): 57–60.
Published: 01 September 2024
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Publisher: Journals Gateway
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (2023) 45 (2 (134)): 105–117.
Published: 01 May 2023
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Publisher: Journals Gateway
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (2022) 44 (1 (130)): 49–54.
Published: 03 January 2022
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Publisher: Journals Gateway
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (2016) 38 (2 (113)): 63–68.
Published: 01 May 2016
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“America's house of cards is crumbling,” sings one of the inhabitants of the homestead at the center of Dog Days , a new chamber opera featured at the 2016 Prototype Festival. “Well, you can only be on top for so long, I guess,” he shrugs. Set in the middle of a total war of unknown origins, Dog Days places a small cross-section of society under the microscope, and we watch as it dissolves before our eyes. A seemingly typical nuclear family, complete with mother, father, daughter, two sons, and a dog makes up the heart of the work. It is the kind of traditional middle-class family unit exemplary of what politicians refer to as the “real America,” save for the fact that the pet dog is actually a homeless man in a dog costume.