Queer Dramaturgies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction: Queer Dramaturgies

   1. Introduction: Queer Dramaturgies

      • Alyson Campbell, Stephen Farrier

      Pages 1-26

3. Queer Notions of Nation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-33

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   2. In Warsaw’s New York: Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Queer Interventions

      • Bryce Lease

      Pages 35-51

   3. Kisses Cause Trouble Le Vrai Spectacle: Queering the French, Frenching the Queer

      • Lazlo Pearlman

      Pages 52-65

   4. 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

      Pages 66-80

   5. Unsettling the Patriot: Troubled Objects of Masculinity and Nationalism

      • Cüneyt Çakirlar

      Pages 81-97

   6. No Matter Where I Go

      • Amahl Khouri

      Pages 98-115

   7. After Documentary Theatre: Exceptionality in National Theatre Wales’ The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning

      • Stephen Greer

      Pages 116-130

   8. Everything You Know About Queerness You Learnt from Blackness: The Afri-Quia Theatre of Black Dykes, Crips and Kids

      • Mojisola Adebayo

      Pages 131-149

4. Queer Returns: Locating Queer Temporalities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-156

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   2. 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

      Pages 157-177

   3. Evoking the Strange Within: Performativity, Metaphor and Translocal Knowledge in Derek Jarman’s Blue

      • João Florêncio

      Pages 178-191

   4. That Lip-Synching Feeling: Drag Performance as Digging the Past

      • Stephen Farrier

      Pages 192-209

   5. Queer Debts and Bad Documents: Taylor Mac’s Young Ladies Of

      • R. Justin Hunt

      Pages 210-222

   6. Taking an Affective Approach to ‘Doing’ Queer Histories in Performance: Queer Dramaturgy as a Reparative Practice of Erotohistoriography

      • Alyson Campbell

      Pages 223-243

   7. Queer Anachronisms: Reimagining Lesbian History in Performance

      • Sarah Mullan

      Pages 244-256

5. Queer Movements: Home and Away

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-261

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   2. Crip/Queer Performance: A Dialogue with Margrit Shildrick and Robert McRuer

      • Alyson Campbell, Stephen Farrier

      Pages 263-278

   3. Sissy That Walk: The Sissy’s Progress

      • Nando Messias

      Pages 279-292

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.

• Queer theatre and performance
• contemporary performance
• LGBTQ performance
• international performance
• drag performance
• drama
• film
• stage
• theatre

“Queer Dramaturgies brings together a collection of essays, by both up-and-coming and established queer scholars, specializing in the study of the live experience of queer performances rather than textual or abstract theoretical analysis. … Queer Dramaturgies delivers a fresh smattering of essays valuable to queer studies, performance studies, and any amalgam of the two.” (Helen Deborah Lewis, Studies in Theatre and Performance, August, 2016)

“Alyson Campbell and Stephen Farrier bring together the work of international performance scholars and makers in a meticulously edited and necessary volume which offers productive new ways of identifying, historicizing, theorizing, and analyzing what makes dramaturgy queer. … The volume thus offers a vibrant look at the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance, providing an accessible book and inspiration for undergraduates, and a reminder for more experienced performance scholars and makers about why queer performance matters.” (Francisco Costa, New Theatre Quarterly, July, 2016)

• University of Melbourne, Australia

  Alyson Campbell

• Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK

  Stephen Farrier

Mojisola Adebayo, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Alyson Campbell, University of Melbourne, Australia. Cüneyt Çak?rlar, Nottingham Trent University, UK. T.L. Cowan, The New School, New York City, USA.  Sean F. Edgecomb, City University of New York, USA. João Florêncio, University of Exeter, UK.  Stephen Greer, University of Glasgow, Scotland Deirdre Heddon, University of Glasgow, UK. R. Justin Hunt, University of Lincoln, UK. Amahl Khouri, Lebanese American University, Lebanon Bryce Lease, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Nando Messias, Theo Adams Company, UK. Tim Miller, Independent Performer, USA. Sarah Mullan, Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Lazlo Pearlman, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. Eliza Steinbock, Leiden University, The Netherlands Fintan Walsh, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Melissa Wansin Wong is, City University of New York, USA.

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