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Having Once Been Beautiful
IT’S BETTER TO START OUT UGLY, written and directed by Asher Hartman, at JOAN, Los Angeles, August 4–6, 2023. Martin Harries reports: The audience, on three sides, can at first imagine that they are on the edges of a ...
Martin Harries is professor of English at UC Irvine. The author of Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship, he is working on “Theater after Film,” a book about the impact of mass culture on postwar drama.