Queer Dramaturgies International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer

by Campbell, Alyson; Farrier, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781137411839
• ISBN10: 113741183X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-11-10
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This international collection gathers together groundbreaking work on queer dramaturgies from new and established voices. Starting from the premise that live performance is experienced in a material, local context, the chapters analyse the intricate and complex workings of queer dramaturgy within specific venues, cities, nations or transnationally. The introduction deliberates on what it is that makes a dramaturgy queer, suggesting it is a weave that is more to do with the self-identity of the maker, the venue and wider context it takes place in, and the relationship with its audience, than simply its content and form. Dramaturgy, by its nature, is concerned with the relationship of an aesthetic work to its socio-political context, and the book's access to work taking place beyond the UK-US axis so dominant in writings on queer – including Lebanon, Turkey, Singapore and South Africa – opens up vital questions about what constitutes as queer, when and where.

Author Biography

Alyson Campbell is a theatre director and Head of Graduate Studies in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, Australia. She leads the Masters courses in Directing for Performance and Dramaturgy at the VCA. Her practice, teaching and research overlap in the areas of (queer) dramaturgy, gender and sexuality in performance, and HIV and AIDS in performance.

Stephen Farrier is a Principal Lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. He is the Course Leader for the Drama, Applied Theatre and Education undergraduate degree. He teaches and researches queer performance, gender, sexuality and performance. He also directs productions both at Royal Central and elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Alyson Campbell and Stephen Farrier
PART I: THE NOTION OF A NATION
1. In Warsaw's New York: Krzysztof Warlikowski's Queer Interventions; Bryce Lease
2. Kisses Cause Trouble Le Vrai Spectacle: Queering the French, Frenching the Queer; Lazlo Pearlman
3. 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
4. Unsettling the Patriot: Troubled Objects of Masculinity and Nationalism; Cüneyt Çakirlar
5. No Matter Where I goL; Amahl Khouri
6. After Documentary Theatre: Exceptionality in National Theatre Wales' The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning; Stephen Greer
7. Everything You Know About Queerness You Learnt From Blackness: The Afri-Quia
Theatre of Black Dykes, Crips and Kids; Mojisola Adebayo
PART II: QUEER RETURNS: LOCATING QUEER TEMPORALITIES
8. 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
9. Evoking the Strange Within: Performativity, Metaphor, and Translocal Knowledge in Derek Jarman's Blue; João Florêncio
10. That Lip-Syncing Feeling: Drag Performance as Digging the Past; Stephen Farrier
11. Queer Debts & Bad Documents: Taylor Mac's Young Ladies Of; R. Justin Hunt
12. Taking an Affective Approach to 'doing' Queer Histories in Performance: Queer Dramaturgy as a Reparative Practice of Erotohistoriography; Alyson Campbell
13. Queer Anachronisms: Reimagining Lesbian History in Performance; Sarah Mullan
PART III: QUEER MOVEMENTS: HOME AND AWAY
14. Cripqueer Performance: a dialogue. An Interview with Margrit Shildrick and Robert McRuer; Alyson Campbell and Stephen Farrier
15. Sissy That Walk: The Sissy's Progress; Nando Messias
16. Hand To Hand; Tim Miller. With an introduction by Deirdre Heddon
17. Taking it Lying Down: On the Labour of Gender Non-Compliance in Doran George's Live Art; Eliza Steinbock
18. Queer Performance and the Drama of Disorientation; Fintan Walsh
19. Queer Kinesis: Performance, Invocation, Transformation; Sean F. Edgecomb
Afterword
Index