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E-Learning Corgi focuses on distance training and education, from instructional design to e-learning and mobile solutions, and pays attention to psychological, social, and cultural factors. The edublog emphasizes real-world e-learning issues and appropriate uses of emerging technologies. Susan Smith Nash is the Corgi's assistant.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
San Francisco Zoo Mauling and "Endangered" (1997)
What makes some stories catch on, while others do not? How and why do certain cultural narrative ring true? This post continues the contemplation of the San Francisco Zoo's escaped tiger and the 1997 play, "Endangered." Please see Part I of this story.
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SF Zoo Mauling and a 1997 Play: Life Imitating Art
I am always amazed at the way that certain issues resurface and renew themselves in the new times, circumstances, and contexts. At the same time, it's interesting to see how life imitates art -- not just in visions of the future (science fiction) or heinous crimes (action-adventure and crime drama), but in other areas as well. In 1996, I wrote a couple of plays featuring animals. The first, Let Dogs Lie, explored the parallels between using animals to test surgical procedures for humans and relationships between people. The second, Endangered, probed the nature of being not only captive, but having one's captivity be the subject of spectacle. It, too, explored parallels between animals in captivity and people in awkward situations (families, relationships, the past).
Because of the recent mauling death of a teenager who was visiting the San Francisco Zoo, and who was mauled to death by an escaped Siberian tiger, I thought I'd take this opportunity to provide links to the play (with podcasts), together with a few thoughts.
Endangered: A play about large cats in zoos and zoo patrons. First published by Potes and Poets Press in 1997, and performed at St. Gregory's University in the spring of 1998.
Endangered: Part I
http://fringejournal.blogspot.com/2005_09_28_archive.html
Endangered: Part II
http://fringejournal.blogspot.com/2005_09_29_archive.html
Endangered: Part III
http://fringejournal.blogspot.com/2005_09_30_archive.html
Please email me (Susan Smith Nash - http://www.beyondutopia.com) if you're interested in finding out how you can obtain copies of the other play, and also license a production. My email: beyondutopia at gmail dot com
Recommended experimental poetics sites:
Tinfish
Chaxblog
Swoonrocket
Light & Dust
Small Press Traffic
Avec Books
Because of the recent mauling death of a teenager who was visiting the San Francisco Zoo, and who was mauled to death by an escaped Siberian tiger, I thought I'd take this opportunity to provide links to the play (with podcasts), together with a few thoughts.
Endangered: A play about large cats in zoos and zoo patrons. First published by Potes and Poets Press in 1997, and performed at St. Gregory's University in the spring of 1998.
Endangered: Part I
http://fringejournal.blogspot.com/2005_09_28_archive.html
Endangered: Part II
http://fringejournal.blogspot.com/2005_09_29_archive.html
Endangered: Part III
http://fringejournal.blogspot.com/2005_09_30_archive.html
Please email me (Susan Smith Nash - http://www.beyondutopia.com) if you're interested in finding out how you can obtain copies of the other play, and also license a production. My email: beyondutopia at gmail dot com
Recommended experimental poetics sites:
Tinfish
Chaxblog
Swoonrocket
Light & Dust
Small Press Traffic
Avec Books
Labels:
animal attacks
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escaped tiger
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maulings
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PETA
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san francisco zoo
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siberian tiger
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theater of animals
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zoos
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