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On the Verge: Promise or Peril for Theatre Education in the Next One Hundred Years?
Arts Education Policy Review, November, 2000 by LAZARUS, JOAN
I have such a yearning for the future. It is boundless!
Eric Overmyer
Perhaps the imagination is on the verge of recovering its rights.
Andre Breton (paraphrased by Eric Overmyer)
In his 1985 play On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning), Eric Overmyer depicts the trek of three "lady adventurers" as they travel through Terra Incognita from the end of the nineteenth century forward into the future of the late twentieth century.(1) Throughout their journey, they discover artifacts and language fragments from a future they have yet to encounter, to which ...
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