Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/feminist PerformanceSue-Ellen Case Psychology Press, 1996 - 276 páginas The Split Britches theater company has defined postmodern lesbian/feminism on stage in the U.S. for the past decade and is arguably the single most important experimental theater company to have emerged during this time. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long- awaited celebration of the theater and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, and Deb Margolin, who make up the troupe and who have won two Obies and other distinguished awards for their performance skills, ensemble work, and textual innovation. Their work addresses the central icons of high and popular culture from the perspective of lesbian and feminist gender twists and power inversions--from Weaver and Shaw's lip synching satires (Shaw's send-up of Perry Como, Weaver's Southern dish of Tammy Whynot), and their butch-femme seductions in Belle Reprieve, to Margolin's parodic stagings of a Jewish comedian in the vaudeville spectacle of Beauty and the Beast, to the queer challenges of transexuality in Lust and Comfort. |
Contenido
SPLIT BRITCHES | 35 |
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST | 59 |
UPWARDLY MOBILE HOME | 87 |
LITTLE WOMEN | 119 |
BELLE REPRIEVE | 149 |
LESBIANS WHO KILL | 185 |
LUST AND COMFORT | 225 |
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actors audience Beast Beauty begins Belle Reprieve Blackout BLANCHE Blue Ridge Mountains butch-femme butch-femme role playing chaise longue character coffee comes curtain dance dark Deb Margolin dream dress EMMA enters exits FATHER feel feminist Frank Sinatra funny Gay Sweatshop Gearheart gender girl gonna hand hear henh henh Hey diddle HILARIOUS HILARIOUS/MEG James Dean JUNE Katharine Hepburn KHURVE KHURVE/AMY kiss Laka Daisical laugh Lesbians Who Kill LEVINE lights Little Women Lois Weaver look LOUISA LOUISA/JO Lust and Comfort Marlon Brando MITCH Mother Godam MOTHER GODAM/MOM night Okay Patraka Peggy Shaw performance pulls Salvation Army scene script sexual Shanghai Gesture Shaw and Weaver singing SIR GUY CHARTORIS/LEVINE Slide song Spiderwoman Split Britches STANLEY STELLA talk TAMMY tell theater there's things Upwardly Mobile Home Village Voice Weaver and Shaw What's woman Yeah