{"product_id":"9781737025542","title":"Two Conversations","description":"\u003cspan\u003eIn September 2021, playwright\/performers\nEisa Davis and Jillian Walker met to discuss Walker’s performance ritual, \u003ci\u003eSKiNFoLK:\nAn American Show \u003c\/i\u003e(forthcoming from 53rd State Press in March 2022). In\nJanuary 2022, they met again to discuss Davis’s installation performance\npiece \u003ci\u003eThe Essentialisn't\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming from 53rd State Press in\n2023). In these twin interviews about the uncanny ways their works mirror\neach other, Davis and Walker take up questions of archive, memory, generational\ntrauma, survivor's guilt, and the conundrum of performance given the\ncommodification and consumption of Black women's joy and pain. How to\nacknowledge, process, and heal the hurt that is felt? How to perform without\nbeing captured by others' ideas of what it means to be oneself? \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Eisa Davis, Jillian Walker","offers":[{"title":"Theatre Communications Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-11-03","offer_id":44230084329727,"sku":"9781737025542","price":14.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e9eac652-9b74-43c1-8013-5381c346d5f6.jpg?v=1693003955","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781737025542","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}