Queer Dramaturgies [electronic resource] : International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer /
Campbell, Alyson.editor.
Farrier, Stephen.editor.
This international collection of essays forms a vibrant picture of the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance. Ranging across cabaret, performance art, the performativity of film, drag and script-based theatre it unravels the dynamic relationship performance has with queerness as it is presented in local and transnational contexts.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The notion of nation. In Warsaw's New York: Krzysztof Warlikowski's queer interventions / Bryce Llease -- Kisses cause trouble Le vrai spectacle: queering the French, Frenching the queer / Lazlo Pearlman -- Performing Singapore's queer quandary: walking the tightrope between sexual illegality and neoliberal-enabled subjectivity at Pink Dot and in Loo Zihan's Cane / Melissa Wansin Wong -- Unsettling the patriot: troubled objects of masculinity and nationalism / Cüneyt Çakırlar -- No matter where I go / Amahl Khouri -- After documentary theatre: exceptionality in National Theatre Wales' The radicalisation of Bradley Manning / Stephen Greer -- Everything you know about queerness you learnt from blackness: the Afri-Quia Theatre of black dykes, crips and kids / Mojisola Adebayo -- Queer returns: locating queer temporalities. A hybrid present embodified: dialectical mimesis on the translocal cabaret stage. César Enríquez's Disertaciones de la chingada and Alexandra Tigchelaar's Les demimondes / T.l. Cowan -- Evoking the strange within: performativity, metaphor, and translocal knowledge in Derek Jarman's Blue / João Florêncio -- That lip-syncing feeling: drag performance as digging the past / Stephen Farrier -- Queer debts & bad documents: Taylor Mac's Young ladies of / R. Justin Hunt -- Taking an affective approach to "doing" queer histories in performance: queer dramaturgy as a reparative practice of erotohistoriography / Alyson Campbell -- Queer anachronisms: reimagining lesbian history in performance / Sarah Mullan -- Queer movements: home and away. Cripqueer performance: a dialogue. an interview with Margrit Shildrick and Robert McRuer / Alyson Campbell and Stephen Farrier -- Sissy that walk: the sissy's progress / Nando Messias -- Hand to hand / Tim Miller, with an introduction by Deirdre Heddon -- Taking it lying down: on the labour of gender non-compliance in Doran George's Live art / Eliza Steinbock -- Queer performance and the drama of disorientation / Fintan Walsh -- Queer kinesis: performance, invocation, transformation / Sean F. Edgecomb -- Afterword.
This international collection of essays forms a vibrant picture of the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance. Ranging across cabaret, performance art, the performativity of film, drag and script-based theatre it unravels the dynamic relationship performance has with queerness as it is presented in local and transnational contexts.
Performing arts.
Theater-History.
Arts.
Theater.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.