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POETRY
150 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (CA $27.00) (US $20.00)
Publication Date: March 1990
ISBN 9780937804384
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Mar 1990)
You–the City was an intimate Manhattanwide play for an audience of one. On keeping an appointment at an office in Times Square, a client (audience member) was passed through a series of mainly scripted encounters at both indoor and outdoor locations in Midtown and the Westside of Manhattan, including a church, an apartment, a car ride, and reaching a climax of realization when the client became the object of one of the various handoffs in a Hell's Kitchen playground. YOU-the City was produced in New York City in 1988. It was re-produced in London in 1989 by the London International Festival of Theater. A production in The Hague took place in 1990. Roof's publication of YOU-the City includes the original New York script of the performance, performance instructions, notes, maps, charts, and photographs of the event as it was played out.
Fiona Templeton, poet and performance-maker, directs the New York performance group The Relationship. She created the 1988 landmark work YOU–The City, an intimate Manhattan-wide play for an audience of one. YOU–The City was published with Roof Books. She co-founded the Theatre of Mistakes in London in the 70s. She has published numerous books of poetry and theater. She lives in London and New York.