Theatre and Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9780230220645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 96 str.

Jill Dolan

Opis

Theatre & Sexuality explains the critical validity of using sexuality as a lens for examining theatre's creation and reception. The book offers clear introductions to sexual identity politics, ways of 'reading' sexuality on stage and a select history of LGBTQ theatre, including a reading of Split Britches/Bloolips' production Belle Reprieve.

Spis treści

Foreword: Tim Miller.- Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 20th Century.- Street Activism in the 1980s and 1990s.- Theorizing How to See Sexuality in Performance.- Queering the Theatre.- Plays and Productions: On and Off Broadway.- Lesbians Off Broadway: Jane Chambers.- Early LGBTQ Venues.- Holly Hughes at WOW.- Split Britches.- Lesbian Brothers Move into the Mainstream.- Gay Male Collectives, Spaces, and Solo Performers.- Solo Performance and LBGTQ Personal Narrative.- Queering Gender Performance.- LGBTQ Plays in the Mainstream.- Identity Differences and Access to Production.- Camp Stylings and Drag Performance.- Belle Reprieve: LGBTQ Theory into Practice.- Further Reading.

O autorze

JILL DOLAN is Professor of English and Theatre at Princeton University, USA, where she is also Director of its programme in the study of women and gender. She is the author of Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre and The Feminist Spectator as Critic, among other books. She writes The Feminist Spectator blog at www.feministspectator.blogspot.com.

Blurb

Why is it useful to look at theatre and performance through the lens of sexual identity? How has commercial theatre embraced gay and lesbian work?

Theatre& Sexuality introduces critical methods and artistic practices that link drama, theatre and performance with minority sexualities in both the U.S. and UK. It narrates a select history of LGBTQ theatre from the early 20th century through today. Including an extended reading of Split Britches/Bloolips' production Belle Reprieve, the book offers clear analysis, as well as a celebration, of LGBTQ performance.
 
Foreword by Tim Miller