Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780367748661 / Twarda / 2024 / 152 str.

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This book explores the dramaturgy of sex in contemporary works for the stage in the social, cultural and historical context of the time and place during which they were written and performed.

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Part 1: Depicting Sexual Discovery and Identity

1. (Still) Shopping and (Still) Fucking: The Stylistics of Queer Desire on Stage

Giorgios Sampatakakis

2. Respectable Queer Sex: Criteria for Permissible Representations in Contemporary Mainstream Theatre

Joey Baseil Massa

3. Depicting Queer Sexual Discovery in Contemporary British Fringe Theatre

Alexander Millington

4. All Tomorrow’s Parties: Structures of Feeling in Verbatim Theatre

Shane Kinghorn

Part 2: Depicting Stylized Sex

5. Disability and Desire: Multimodal Exploration in Deaf West’s Spring Awakening

Lindsey Barr

6. Dancing on a Knife’s Edge: Performing Violent Co-Dependency in Bryony Lavery and Frantic Assembly’s Stockholm

Karen Morash

7. A Dramaturgy of Precariousness: The Real, Realness, and Spectatorship of Sex in Dead Centre’s Good Sex

Huayu Yang

8. Mette Ingvartsen’s “The Red Pieces” series: Sex, Dance, Erasing Power Structures and Ungendered Bodies

Anne Lempicki

Part 3: Depicting Transactional Sex

9. Commodification of Women’s Bodies: Staging the Consequences

Sophie Bastien

10. Masculinity and Commercial Sex from the Perspective of Giuliana Musso’s Sexmachine

Stefania Lodi Rizzini

Part 4: Depicting Female Desire

11. Context, Cliche, and Other Considerations for Staging Female Desire

Cha Ramos and Claire Warden

12. Monstrous Desires: Devouring Sexuality and Sapphic Succubus in Contemporary Dramatic Writings in France

Leïla Cassar

Part 5: Depicting Sexual Violence

13. Patriarchy Structures and Depictions of Patriarchal Sex in Contemporary Theatre

Kate Mulley

14. Interrogating Racialized Sexual Violence in Slave Play

Jessica Ellison

15. Sexual Assault and the Criminal Justice System: Multi-Roling and the Naked Female Body in Breach Theatre’s It’s True, It’s True, It’s True

Hannah Simpson

16. Sex Between Macabre Lust and Clinical Dissection in Dea Loher’s Dramaturgy

Youn Le Guern-Herry

17. Applications of Dramaturgy in the Physical Creation of Sexual Violence on Stage

Cha Ramos and Meron Langsner

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Kate Mulley is an internationally acclaimed playwright, librettist, lyricist, producer and dramaturg whose work explores gender, power, place and desire through a feminist, and often historical, lens. Her plays and musicals have been performed in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and China.