Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene: Vol 1
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2020
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- Title
- Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene: Vol 1
- Author
- Farrier, Stephen (Editor)/ Edward, Mark (Editor)/ Brater, Enoch (Editor)/ Taylor-Batty, Mark (Editor)
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1350082945
- ISBN 13
- 9781350082946
- Item weight
- 0.43 kilograms
- Series
- Book 27 of 35: Methuen Drama Engage
In recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US and the UK.
This collection offers a diverse range of critical engagements by drag performers, makers, scholars and writers reflecting on work from the UK, USA, Israel, Germany and Australia. Moving beyond discussions of gender theory, the essays consider contemporary drag performance practices, connecting them to the histories, communities and politics that produced them.
Chapters range across discussions of drag kings in the US, UK and drag and activism; the influence of RuPaul on the generation of new forms of work in New York; transfeminist critiques of drag; ‘bio’/faux queens;
engagements with race and ethnicity through drag performance; drag andragogy; audience concerns; drag intersections with animal personas, and how drag performance relates to personal narratives of history and identity.
Collectively the contributions focus on drag as a mode of performance that is diverse and that uncorsets the easy thought that drag is simply a cross dressing man in a dress or a woman in a suit.
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About the Author
Stephen Farrier, PhD is Professor and Deputy Principal at Rose Bruford College, UK. Broadly, his work focuses on queer performance and its histories, and community performance practices related to gender and sexuality. In 2023 he co-edited a special double edition of Contemporary Theatre Review, entitled ‘What’s Queer about Queer Performance Now?’ with Alyson Campbell and Manola-Gayatri Kumarswamy. Since co-editing work with Alyson Campbell on Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (2015) he has with, Mark Edward for Bloomsbury, co-edited the previous two volumes of this current edited collection on drag performance: Contemporary Drag Performers and Practices: Drag in a Changing Scene, Vol. 1 (2020) and Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a Changing Scene, Vol. 2 (2021). He has written on the playwright Joe Orton for Studies in Theatre and Performance (37(2), 2017) and intergenerational queer performance work for the Journal of Homosexuality (62(10), 2015). He has written many chapters for various edited collections on a range of areas connected to queer performance, from HIV/AIDS narratives to queer readings of the work of Sarah Kane. In addition to his research outputs, he is active in his sector organizations and supports Research Integrity through ethics work.
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