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Cephalonegativity: On the Theater of Decapitation

Cephalonegativity: On the Theater of Decapitation

Corrao, Mike
Isoline, Evan

Paperback

General Drama

Publisher Price: $14.99

ISBN10: 1954899033
ISBN13: 9781954899032
Publisher: Apocalypse Party
Published: Sep 7 2021
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.30 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

Fully exploiting the Gogolesque conceit of a cephalophore whose body and head go their own separate ways, Cephalonegativity reads like Beckett's Play (with M reprised as an even more slippery version of himself) or Not I as if performed by the secret society of Acéphale. Archaic turns of phrase and elision combine with post-cinematic headlessness to produce a stage play that plays with stages and stages play, a lesescenario from the velveteen tongue of an heretical zealot, its phrases as if slurped up off an abattoir floor, or off the rotted walls of a theatre-cum-poisoned-amniotic-sac where the performers have all become kuroko. Read out loud, at speed, in honour of its progenitors, the words turn into chunks of hot pomegranate meat in your mouth-turned-anus, with your gills agape, your mutinous soma exsanguinated, levitating above you, your head on fire singing like litel clergeon from the catacombs.-Gary J. Shipley, author of 30 Fake Beheadings

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