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Planned Obsolescence? Technologies of Performance Training in Detroit, Michigan
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At a recent gathering of the Mid- America Theatre Conference (MATC) in Cleveland, Ohio, esteemed theatre historian Odai Johnson remarked that he had observed, across the conference presentations, a 'propensity to look for the familiar' in the past.1 While this propensity, he noted, was not necessarily unique to the presenters at this conference - most of whom teach at colleges and universities in the American 'midwest' - Johnson encouraged us to pursue investigations that, rather than looking for the familiar, consider 'how strange even the most immediate past can be'.2
Since I have been teaching Theatre at Wayne State University - an innercity State-supported institution of …
