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Deviant acts : essays on queer performance /

Contributor(s): Cregan, David, 1967- [editor.].
Publisher: Dublin : Carysfort Press, 2009Description: x, 227 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: umediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781904505426.Subject(s): Gay theater -- Ireland | Homosexuality in the theater -- Ireland | Gender identity in the theater -- IrelandDDC classification: 822.09
Contents:
Introduction / David Cregan -- Queering Oscar: versions of Wilde on the Irish stage and screen / Eibhear Walshe -- The politics of camp: queering parades, performance, and the public in Belfast / Kathryn Conrad -- Lesbian version of the female biography play: Emma Donoghue's I know my own heart and Ladies and gentlemen / Mária Kurdi -- Touching, feeling, cross-dressing : on the affectivity of queer performance, or, What makes Panti fabulous / Fintan Walsh -- Edward Martyn's theatrical hieratic homoeroticism / Michael Patrick Lapointe -- The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival / Brian Merriman -- Sexuality and the dysfunctional city : queering segregated space / Niall Rea -- Gender as performance in the works of Glasshouse Productions, Dublin / Samuele Grassi -- Queer wanderers, queer spaces : dramatic devices for re-imagining Ireland / Tod Barry -- "Crying" on "Pluto" : queering the "Irish question" for global film audiences / Charlotte McIvor -- Living by the code : authority in The gay detective / Kathleen A. Heininge -- "There's nothing queer here" : the Abbey Theatre and the problem of practice / David Cregan
Summary: This book contains a collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. It includes chapters from scholars, theatre producers and theatre artists from around the world analysing everything from the drag scene in Dublin to the Gay Pride Parades in Belfast.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / David Cregan -- Queering Oscar: versions of Wilde on the Irish stage and screen / Eibhear Walshe -- The politics of camp: queering parades, performance, and the public in Belfast / Kathryn Conrad -- Lesbian version of the female biography play: Emma Donoghue's I know my own heart and Ladies and gentlemen / Mária Kurdi -- Touching, feeling, cross-dressing : on the affectivity of queer performance, or, What makes Panti fabulous / Fintan Walsh -- Edward Martyn's theatrical hieratic homoeroticism / Michael Patrick Lapointe -- The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival / Brian Merriman -- Sexuality and the dysfunctional city : queering segregated space / Niall Rea -- Gender as performance in the works of Glasshouse Productions, Dublin / Samuele Grassi -- Queer wanderers, queer spaces : dramatic devices for re-imagining Ireland / Tod Barry -- "Crying" on "Pluto" : queering the "Irish question" for global film audiences / Charlotte McIvor -- Living by the code : authority in The gay detective / Kathleen A. Heininge -- "There's nothing queer here" : the Abbey Theatre and the problem of practice / David Cregan

This book contains a collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. It includes chapters from scholars, theatre producers and theatre artists from around the world analysing everything from the drag scene in Dublin to the Gay Pride Parades in Belfast.

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