Dolan Theatre and Sexuality

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-137-01423-8
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: Theatre And

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.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dolan, Jill

Dolan, Jill S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Miller, Tim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.