More from the Women of “Ruined”

Posted on May 13, 2009 by erics11

It’s been a pretty good year for the cast and crew of “Ruined.” They’ve won numerous awards and received copious amounts of praise for their work. Something that we’ve been talking about a lot in this course is sacrificing true representation for the benefits of aid. In this short piece from yesterday, we see Art [...]

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“Ruined” Awarded Pulitzer Prize

Posted on April 20, 2009 by erics11

Lynn Nottage was awarded the Pulitzer for Drama for her play. Here’s what the Associated Press had to say about the show:
“Ruined,” Lynn Nottage’s harrowing tale of survival set against the backdrop of an African civil war, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama on Monday.
Inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children,” Nottage’s [...]

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The Spectacle of Ruined

Posted on April 18, 2009 by lwimbush

Last week in class we talked about Guy Debord’s “Separation perfected” and spectacle as it relates to war. Of spectacles, Debord says, “…all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation (p. 95).” I started thinking about Ruined and how instead of showing [...]

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