Writing Queer Performance : Contemporary Texts and Documents

Le Gateau Chocolat

ISBN 10: 1350431494 / ISBN 13: 9781350431492

Editore: Bloomsbury Academic Jan 2025, 2025

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Neuware - This anthology documents a decade of some of the UK's most exciting queer performances, through a combination of retrospective scripts, development material and visual documentation.Queer performances are expected to live a brief, bright life without leaving any textual record. Indeed, they rarely begin with complete scripts at all, being often developed instead by performance practices designed to fill noisy bars, clinking cabaret venues and fringe theatres, typically for short runs. This lack of textual documentation underplays the importance of writing to contemporary queer performances, while rendering them vulnerable to disappearance in the diaphanous archives of memory.Writing Queer Performance: Contemporary Texts and Documents features eight seminal works, captured though performance texts and visual documentation, that ensures their accessibility long after the event of live performance. Supported by a contextualizing introduction, the anthology provides a panoramic view of contemporary preoccupations, processes and practices.The works include:Black (2013), Le Gateau ChocolatPull the Trigger (2016), Vijay PatelRe-Member Me (2017), Dickie BeauDollyWould (2017), Sh!t TheatreNIGHTCLUBBING (2018), Ray YoungPleasure Seekers (2022), Bourgeois & MauriceThe Making of Pinocchio (2022), Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskillTen Commandments (2022), David Hoyle.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Writing Queer Performance : Contemporary Texts and Documents
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic Jan 2025
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1350431494
• ISBN 13: 9781350431492
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 232 L x 157 A x 15 P (millimetri) 232 millimetri di larghezza per 157 millimetri di altezza per 15 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 503 grammi

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Riassunto

The first of its kind, this anthology documents some of the UK's most exciting contemporary queer performances, through a mix of script, development material, and artist interviews.

Informazioni sugli autori

Sh!t Theatre are Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole. They have been writing, performing and drinking together since May 2010. They've won some awards and toured to some places and their shows Letters to Windsor House and DollyWould are also published by Oberon Books.

Fintan Walsh is Professor of Performing Arts and Humanities and Director of Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. His recent books include the collection Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance (Methuen Drama 2020) and the monograph Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland (2016). He is a former editor of the Theatre Research International, and editor of the book series Contemporary Performance Texts.