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Works by Camille Roy
(Writer)
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http://www.camilleroy.com/
http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/narrativity/
Profile created
March 7, 2005
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Literature & Fiction -- Nonfiction -- Poets & Poetry -- Theater
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Cold Heaven (1993)
Two plays with an introduction by the author.
"Developing the piece in rehearsal was like driving into a hallucination that
was clearly mine, and not mine." Sometimes Dead is Better and Bye Bye
Brunhilde are plays which have the dissonant, radical beauty of poetry. Eileen
Myles called Bye Bye Brunhilde "Not a play but an exploding poem by a bright
new writer from the West Coast." Its two women lovers are named Fear and
Technique, and are not just morality figures of love but hallucinations of the
viewers and listeners.
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The Rosy Medallions: Selected Work
(1995) with Lory Poulson, Designer
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cheap speech (2002) with Renee Gladman, designer.
Cheap Speech is a wicked comedy of love and nausea.
Sydney, an abstract-novelist-queer is living on Wanda's sex work earnings.
Wanda has a bad case of stripper's disgust. They quarrel and hurtle apart,
through urban undergrowth, each bolted to a separate flaw in the social
texture. There's a multiple personality somewhere, a baby, and a theater--plus
a Romanian refugee who has been boiled in history. In this urban jungle,
anyone you meet can flash a sentence and reel across the stage, and the sadist
is melancholy, the effect of too much sex, power, torture, and poetry.
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Swarm (1998) with
Jay Schwarz, Designer
These startling, witty stories take an astringent
view of America's sexual paradise. Combining a playwright's keen ear for
speech with a poet's vivid eye, the tone throughout is darkly comic as the
young narrator stumbles from her tense inner city home through Lesbian Nation,
dyke-run massage parlors, the homes of the wealthy, and eccentric sexual lives
of all kinds.
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craquer: an essay on class struggle (2002) with
Mary Burger, designer.
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CRAQUER is both a pun on 'cracker' and a term dating from the French
Revolution meaning 'to tell dubious stories'. The book delivers a comic yet
deft investigation into the secrets of class and family history. The family in
question, bohemian and communist, has deep roots in a hard scrabble and
inventive lower class clan, as well as a slew of terrifying upper class
relations. Roy, caught in these cross-currents, delivers not only a hilarious
family history, but also an extraordinary investigation into American social
class as performance and as desire.
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