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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bowling Green State UniversityAsst. Professor, John T. WarrenJohn T. Warren described his experience with "These Stories Saved My Life" as magical. "If I could begin every morning by witnessing such wondrous performance work, I would consider myself all too fortunate." Dr. Warren served as program planner for the Western States Communications Association Convention, held February 21 - 23, 2005 at the Argent Hotel in San Francisco, California. Mr. Warren says of the characters, "Indeed, it is Furahaa's character work that one first meets and is moved by." "It is the layered world she creates for us that completes the performance." John Warren critiques the performance on three layers, these are his comments: Layer 1 - Story as Welcoming -This performance, as story is want to do, welcomes us into the lives told. Layer 2 - Story as Detailing Complexity- In this performance, I am reminded that the magic of performance, especially auto-biographical form presented by Furahaa in this performance, allows us to see that lives are richly complex, always more than the stereotypes and /or myths that we commonly see surrounding them. Layer 3 - Story as Constitutive - That is, stories do not simply tell us about the past (as this performance surely claims to do), it re/creates the life and times of those who lived them. I am not simply being told of Mr. Little in "The Coming Out of Mr. Little's Spirit" -- Mr. Little is made a new, as are the struggles he embodies. This power of performance is its' most magical form. The power to make new, to remake the folks we knew, to reconstitute them in performance. John Warren, Asst. Professor, Bowling Green State University
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