Writing Queer Performance

Contemporary Texts and Documents

Ray Young author Sh!t Theatre author Le Gateau Chocolat author Dickie Beau author Bourgeois & Maurice author Rosana Cade author Ivor MacAskill author Fintan Walsh editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publishing:23rd Jan '25

£75.00

This title is due to be published on 23rd January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Writing Queer Performance cover

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.

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 Documentsfeatures eight seminal works, captured through 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.

ISBN: 9781350431508

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

232 pages