Most of the worlds languages refer to tears as plural, even when they are streaming in a single current down the cheeks. Daniel Sack organizes Cue Tears around that philological fact: each of the seven compact chapters drops as a separate essay in the shape of a tear, but they all flow together in the end. Exceptionally goodclear, cogent, often evocative, and sometimes just stunning. -- Joseph Roach, Yale University Cue Tears is a rich and movingly autobiographical meditation on weeping in theater, performance art, and academia. Daniel Sacks finely wrought essays investigate how the spectacle of weeping dissolves many of our presumed distinctionsreal/staged, authentic/artificial, willed/involuntary, private/publicinherited from traditional discourses of sentiment. -- Andrew Sofer, Boston College In this beautifully conceived study of the performative life of tears, Daniel Sack invites us to consider how crying operates as an offering of oneself in relation to another. With a diverse set of essays that include a restaged conversation between the author and his biochemist father, a reconsideration of conceptual artists who use tears to provoke reconsiderations of the public and private self, and an exploration of theatrical props and devices used to symbolize or provoke crying, Sack compels us to dwell with him at the limits of affect, empathy, and performance itself. This is a wonderful book, moving in its invocations and astute in its tear-soaked provocations. -- Patrick Anderson, University of California San Diego "Sack (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst) has written a rich and very personal look at the physiological, emotional, and intellectual reasons that we cry and the powerful performative aspect of falling tears. . . Highly recommended." * E. C. Skiles, Choice * "This valuable book will serve readers like myself who ponder the significance of emotional feeling in theatrical performance as well as beginner-actors unsure of what to do about the challenge of crying. It can assist experimental artists exploring fragile moments in life. The expansive discussion of Cue Tears tracks the practice and theory of crying and tears to full effect." * Peta Tait, Comparative Drama *
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