Publisher's Synopsis
Ventriloquist: Two Plays & Ventriloquial Miscellany goes deep into the world of notable American playwright Rick Mitchell's performative and diabolical examination of ventriloquism and the duality of man, featuring two of his most respected and autobiographical works: Ventriloquist Sex and Ventriloquist Adrift; as well as Bone, a poem with a nod to Jasper Johns's Ventriloquist; Radical Ventriloquism: Mimesis, Violence, and the Caste War of Yucatán; Dr. Mitchell's Ventriloquism & Comedy Workshop; How to Build a Quick and Cheap Puppet; an introduction by Mitchell; and a foreword by the acclaimed author of No ApplauseJust Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, Trav S.D., a modern-day vaudevillian and theater critic.
