Writing Queer Performance

Le Gateau Chocolat, Dickie Beau, Ray Young, Bourgeois & Maurice, Sh!t Theatre, Rosana Cade, Ivor MacAskill, David Hoyle, Vijay Patel

Writing Queer Performance
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
20 February 2025
Pages
232
ISBN
9781350431492

Writing Queer Performance

Le Gateau Chocolat, Dickie Beau, Ray Young, Bourgeois & Maurice, Sh!t Theatre, Rosana Cade, Ivor MacAskill, David Hoyle, Vijay Patel

This anthology documents a decade of some of the UK's most exciting queer performance, through a combination of retrospective scripts, development material and visual documentation. Queer performance is expected to live a brief, bright life without leaving any textual record. Indeed, it rarely begins with a complete script 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 performance, while rendering it 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.

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