In this collection of interviews conducted between 2019-2021 with New
York theater artists who have spent their lives working in and inventing
the avant-garde, playwright Sara Farrington brings to light a series of
lost conversations about class, race, difficulty, endurance, and
privilege in the New York avant-garde of the past fifty years, as well
as conversations about the ephemerality, the always-about-to-be-lostness
of the medium itself. Featuring conversations with Joanne Akalaitis,
Anne Bogart, Lee Breuer, Ping Chong, Richard Foreman, Andre Gregory,
Deborah Hay, Bill T. Jones, Adrienne Kennedy, Lola Pashalinksi, Jennifer
Tipton, Kate Valk, Mac Wellman, and Robert Wilson, The Lost
Conversation is also a record both of the avant-garde's past and of its
urgent present.