Callbacks - Whiteford, M.
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The glamour of Callbacks is vulgar and gimcrack, the humor crass and slapstick. The women on stage rebel against the male gaze and male domination in entertainment. Callbacks is inspired by the structure and tone of the serial sitcom format, with fragments of unresolved narrative, a focus on the ensemble, pattering dialogue, recurrence, fadeouts, and a denial of closure. The uncanny and carnivalesque create an entrancing tone that is parried by the tragic side of showbiz--the scrutiny of women aging in front of an audience, and the resulting fear of failure and obscurity that drives rivalry and family feuds.…mehr

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The glamour of Callbacks is vulgar and gimcrack, the humor crass and slapstick. The women on stage rebel against the male gaze and male domination in entertainment. Callbacks is inspired by the structure and tone of the serial sitcom format, with fragments of unresolved narrative, a focus on the ensemble, pattering dialogue, recurrence, fadeouts, and a denial of closure. The uncanny and carnivalesque create an entrancing tone that is parried by the tragic side of showbiz--the scrutiny of women aging in front of an audience, and the resulting fear of failure and obscurity that drives rivalry and family feuds.
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Autorenporträt
M. Whiteford is a writer from New York now living and working in Los Angeles. Her play, The Shapes We Make With Our Bodies, was published by Plays Inverse in November 2015. She and her writing have appeared at REDCAT Theater, The Women's Center for Creative Work, MAMA Gallery, Pieter Performance Space, Coaxial, Alias Books, Last Projects, and 356 Mission in Los Angeles; Pocket Utopia in New York City; Living Copenhagen in Denmark; and The Institute for Sociometry in San Francisco. They are an active member of Los Angeles feminist communities, including the Women's Center for Creative Work and Barbara Grossman's Breakfast Club. She is a 2015 Juniper Scholar and 2015-2016 REEF Residency awardee. Whiteford is currently a Los Angeles critic for ArtForum, the Managing Editor of the Art Book Review, and a freelance art and book