Queer notions
Subtitle: new plays and performances from Ireland
By: edited by Fintan Walsh
Publisher: Cork University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cork, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781859184691
Subjects: Gay drama; Gay dramatists; Gay men; English drama; Drama; Homosexuality; Lesbians; Irish authors
Description: This collection is a record of some of the most important performative ideas and embodied interventions that have shaped queer culture and theatre and performance practice in Ireland in recent times. It includes plays, experimental performance documentation and a visual essay that reveal the creativity of culture.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the flaming archive / Fintan Walsh; title: The queen & peacock (2000) / Loughlin Deegan; title: Passage (2001) / Deirdre Kinahan; title: A cure for homosexuality (2005) / Neil Watkins; title: The drowning room (2006) / Verity-Alicia Mavenawitz; title: Danny and Chantelle (still here) (2006) / Phillip McMahon; title: The ecstasy of tomorrow (1987-2010) / Niall Sweeney; title: Victor and Gord, Ali and Michael (2009) / Úna McKevitt, with cast; title: A woman in progress (2009) / Panti.