Writing Queer Performance: Contemporary Texts and Documents (Methuen Drama Play Collections) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350431508 ISBN 13: 9781350431508

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2025

Synopsis

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 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.

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About the Author

Fintan Walsh is Professor of Performing Arts and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of ondon, where he is Head of the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication and Director of Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350431508
• ISBN 13: 9781350431508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Walsh Fintan