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This is the third installment in Stories from the Strange Side, about my adventures and explorations into less conventional forms of theatre—specifically in coursework I did at Grinnell focusing on avant-garde performance art. As with the last piece featured in this series, this performance was tailored for an audience of one.
There are many feelings and activities intrinsic to the collegiate library, and many which are taboo. Focus, not distraction. Peace, not disruption. Despair, not mirth. Everything has its proper place and upsetting that order earns piercing glares and punitive tsks. So it goes with Burling Library, a squat grey brick of a building with an adorable addition reminiscent of a top hat. You weave your way through the stacks to an open study area at the rear of the first floor, taking a chair placed for you between two shelves. You survey the room for a short second, wondering for a moment how the students with their brows in their books will behave once the antics commence, before movement flickers in your peripheral vision. The performance has begun.
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