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Inspired by the twenty-five-year history of New York’s Foundry Theatre,
A Moment on the Clock of the World is an anthology of inquiry arising both within and between art and social justice practices.
About the author
The Foundry is an ongoing performance of ideas — created by rigorous theatrical works, public dialogues and community engagement — that invites as many people as possible to consider what it means to be citizens of a world that we ourselves create.
Summary
Inspired by the twenty-five-year history of New York’s Foundry Theatre, A Moment on the Clock of the World is an anthology of inquiry arising both within and between art and social justice practices.
Foreword
- Galleys available
- National TV, radio, and print campaign, including interviews, features, and reviews
- Review copies sent to major dailies like New York Times, Chicago Tribune, etc. as well as online, and theatre outlets like Playbill, American Theatre, and Stage.
- Major launch events in New York City
- Feature interview on WBAI radio in NYC
- Advertising in Playbill, American Theatre, and Stage
- Direct promotion to public school teachers in New York City and beyond, with ebook giveaway
- Submission to major poetry awards
- Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the contributors engagements
- Promotion through social media: Haymarket Books has 17k Twitter followers and 29k Facebook fans
- We will leverage the Foundry's active mailing list, which has an average open rate of 40 percent
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"These stunning essays, interviews, incantations, manifestations are by the best radical thinkers in the U.S. A. This collection is a manifesto filled with bold ideas, magic and poetry, a living record of the best of what is still called the ‘un-American tradition’ in theater. This is political and creative courage at its best and the voices inside this work are not only subversive but reach to the very root of why we make theater, why we keep coming back. Best of all, this book wrenches apart neo-liberal notions of what ‘resistance’ truly is, and redefines and recontructs them from the root up.
And the root is the only place where the radical still lives. And there also lives The Foundry theater." —Naomi Wallace
"The Foundry Theatre is the great exemplar of artistic excellence, political courage, and visionary hope of American theatre in the late 20th and early 21st centuries." —Cornel West, (from the Foreword)
"The Foundry Theatre has quietly been responsible for some of the most artistically ambitious work seen in New York in recent years." —The New York Times
"The Foundry has a long history of pushing plays beyond the boundaries of traditional theatre in terms of form, content, and location." —Time Out
"The Foundry Theatre has excellent vision. [They] have championed remarkable theatremakers who challenge what we consider a play." —Village Voice
"The Foundry has long had the passion for mixing artistic rigor with social activism." —The Brooklyn Rail
"Since 1994, The Foundry Theatre has been a mainstay in the downtown theatre scene." —The New York Times
