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The Tea Party Jacobins,
InvIsIble PublIcs closet Dramas for the contemporary stage Miriam Felton-Dansky The Myopia, written and performed by David Greenspan, presented by the Foundry Theatre, New York, January 6âFebruary 7, 2010. Crime or Emergency, written and performed by Sibyl Kempson and Mike Iveson, Jr., P.S. 122, New York, December 4â20, 2009. n a recent New York Review of Books essay titled âThe Tea Party Jacobins,â Mark Lilla charts the development of a new pattern of âradical individualismâ in American politicsâloosely affiliated groups that, like the right-wing Tea Party movement, rebel not only against specific leaders or parties, but also against government and leadership as a whole. This new populism, he writes, âfires up emotions by appealing to individual opinion, individual autonomy, and individual choice . . . It gives voice to those who feel they are being bullied, but this voice has only one, Garbo-like thing to say: I want to be left alone.â1 Lilla reveals an atomized America, where millions of solitary citizens enact private dramas in the comforts of home, untroubled by public opinion or collective needs. In the winter of 2010, two New York theatre productions echoed this eerie phenomenon, staging solo shows with national and historical
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: Jan 1, 2011
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