Deviant Acts: Essays on Queer Performance

ISBN-13: 9781788748827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

David Cregan

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A collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. While it highlights the particular representations of gay and lesbian identity it also brings to light how diversity has always been a part of Irish culture and is, in fact, shaping what it means to be Irish today.

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CONTENTS: Eibhear Walshe: Queering Oscar: Versions of Wilde on the Irish Stage and Screen - Kathryn Conrad: The Politics of Camp: Queering Parades, Performance, and the Public in Belfast - Mária Kurdi: Lesbian Versions of the Female Biography Play: Emma Donoghue's I know My Own Heart and Ladies and Gentlemen - Fintan Walsh: Touching, Feeling, Cross-dressing: On the Affectivity of Queer Performance. Or, What Makes Panti Fabulous - Michael Patrick Lapointe: Edward Martyn's Theatrical Hieratic Homoeroticism - Brian Merriman: The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival - Niall Rea: Sexuality and Dysfuntional City: Queering Segregated Space - Samuele Grassi: Gender as Performance in the Works of Glasshouse Producions, Dublin - Todd Barry: Queer Wanderers, Queer Spaces: Dramatic Devices for Re-imagining Ireland - Charlotte McIvor: «Crying» on «Pluto»: Queering the «Irish Question» for Global Film Audiences - Kathleen A. Heininge: Living by the Code: Authority in The Gay Detective - David Cregan: «There's Nothing Queer Here»: The Abbey Theatre and the Problem of Practice.