Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions
Why do contemporary queer theatre and performance appear to be possessed by the past? What aesthetic practices and dramaturgical devices reveal the occupation of the present by painful history? How might the experience of theatre and performance relieve the present of its most arduous burdens? Following recent legislation and cultural initiatives across many Western countries hailed as confirming the darkest days for LGBTQ+ people were over, this book turns our attention to artists fixed on history's enduring harm. Guiding us through an eclectic range of examples including theatre, performance, installation and digital practices, Fintan Walsh explores how this work reckons with complex cultural and personal histories.
Fintan Walsh (Author, Birkbeck, University of London, UK); Anja Hartl (University of Innsbruck, Austria); William C. Boles (Rollins College, USA)
- Methuen Drama
- 9781350297968
- 244 pages
- Hardback
- United Kingdom
- Theatre studies
