How to Fail as a Popstar

Name: How to Fail as a Popstar
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SKU: 9781551528427
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By Vivek Shraya

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How to Fail as a Popstar is the debut play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, presenting a one-person show that traces her journey from singing in shopping malls to 'not quite' pop music superstardom. With a blend of humour and insight, it reflects on the power of pop culture, dreams, disappointments, and self-determination in the search for an authentic voice.

The book edition includes colour photographs from the 2020 Toronto production and a foreword by director Brendan Healy.
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This work is ideal for readers interested in contemporary arts and culture, fans of theatrical and musical personal memoirs, and those drawn to stories of personal and cultural transformation.

The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation.

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The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation.

Described as 'cultural rocket fuel' by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, poetry, and children's books explore the beauty and power of personal and cultural transformation. How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek's debut theatrical work, a one-person show that chronicles her journey from singing in shopping malls to not quite pop music superstardom with beguiling humour and insight. A reflection on the power of pop culture, dreams, disappointments, and self-determination, this astonishing work is a raw, honest, and hopeful depiction of the search to find one's authentic voice.

The book includes colour photographs from the show's 2020 production in Toronto, and a foreword by its director Brendan Healy.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781551528427

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 June 2021

Country: Canada

Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press

Contributors:

Foreword by Brendan Healy

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 72

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Vivek Shraya

About the Author

Vivek Shraya is the author of the young-adult collection God Loves Hair, the novels The Subtweet and She of the Mountains, the poetry book even this page is white, the graphic novel Death Threat, and the children's picture book (with Rajni Perera) The Boy & the Bindi (all published by Arsenal Pulp Press), as well as I'm Afraid of Men and What I Love About Being QUEER. Her first play How to Fail as a Popstar premiered at Canadian Stage in Toronto in 2020. She is editor of the Arsenal Pulp Press imprint VS. Books, dedicated to work by new and emerging Black or Indigenous writers, or writers of colour. Originally from Edmonton, she lives in Calgary, where she is an assistant professor in the University of Calgary's Department of English.

Brendan Healy is a theater director whose credits include the premiere production of Vivek Shraya's How to Fail as a Popstar at Canadian Stage in Toronto in 2020. He is a regular instructor at the National Theatre School of Canada.

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