StinkyLulu Says

Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) reflects on I’ll reflect on the act of “stepping away” from one’s profession as I consider Karen Olivo’s recent declaration of her decision to “lead by leaving” and in the context what is sometimes called academic “quit lit”… as I consider the question: What Does It Mean to Publicly Announce that You Are Stepping Away?

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Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) reflects on how the pandemic seems to have stirred all kinds of folks to write manifestos (often without even realize they’re doing so), as I also reflect on the experience of engaging Mike Daisey’s actually live-streamed performance What the F*ck Just Happened…as I also ask: What’s with All the Manifestos Lately?

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Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) reflects on a recent essay by memoirist Tanya Ward Goodman and on what this 13th month of shutdown seems to be stirring up for folks in the theatre, for folks in academia and for folks everywhere, as I also ask: How Are We to Keep Going When the Rules Keep Changing?

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Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) grapples again with the recurring question: “But is virtual theatre ‘film’ or is it ‘theatre’?” Thinking alongside two essays — one by journalist Alexis Soloski and another by scholar Kieran Fenby-Hulse, — as I consider the tensions among liveness, remoteness and artificial (or artistic) scarcity, as I also ask: what makes for a durable (or memorable) remote theatre experience? 

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Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) reflects on today’s anniversary — one year to the day since my last in-person theatrical experience — and considers how the StinkyLuluSays podcast itself offers a necessarily idiosyncratic, incomplete and imperfect documentation of a year in the life of one particular theatregoer; plus some preliminary thoughts on why it might be that the works of certain playwrights — Beckett, Fornés — adapt so readily to remote theatre…

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Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) reflects on the “Corona Can’t Keep A Good Queen Down” episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race — both for its documentation of some of the realities of reality television production in a pandemic and for its reminder of what every performance scholar might learn from reality tv.

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Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) reads the full text of his essay, “In Defense of ‘Remote Performance’” — published this week in Prompt: A Journal of Theatre Theory, Practice and Teaching.

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Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) contemplates the question of why performances stage on — and performers working on — social media stirs so much controversy; some reflection, too, on the past, present and future of “filmed” solo performance.

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SS4E2: Why Do We Keep Asking the Question — But Is It Theatre?

Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) contemplates the disruption of familiar theatrical rituals — and discovery of new ones — as we enter the 49th week and begin the twelfth month of what will be a full year of theatre without theatres; some reflections, too, on some recent remote encounters with the work of María Irene Fornés.

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Profe Herrera (aka StinkyLulu) takes a moment — on the occasion of a new calendar year, a new academic semester, a new cycle of episodes — to reflect a bit on both the personal and pedagogic reasons why I do this podcast and, especially, why I publish a mostly weekly theatre newsletter. As I do, might just address the perennially perplexing question: why is your newsletter called #TheatreClique anyway? And who in the is StinkyLulu?

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