Research Catalog

Title

The only way home is through the show : performance work of Lois Weaver / edited by Jen Harvie and Lois Weaver.

Publication

Bristol : Intellect Books, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harvie, Jen
• Weaver, Lois

Description

320 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Lois Weaver is one of the world's leading figures in feminist and lesbian performance, a true pioneer in the growing field. This book offers the first book-length assessment of her career and work, tracing its history, aesthetics, principles, inspirations, innovations, and more. Contributors include Weaver's most important collaborators from throughout her career, as well as many of the leading feminist theorists, journalists, and performers of the past forty years. The book also includes interviews not just with Weaver, but also with her partner, in life and performance, Peggy Shaw, and groundbreaking theater maker Muriel Miguel. The result is a book that is truly unprecedented, a lavishly illustrated and expertly curated celebration of an incredible career.

Series Statement

Intellect live ; 4

Uniform Title

Intellect live ; 4.

Subjects

• Feminism
• Lesbian theater > History
• Weaver, Lois

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Peggy Shaw -- Introduction: welcome home / Jen Harvie -- How do you start? Red pajamas ; Pink tornado (from Faith and dancing) / Lois Weaver -- Places to start / Jen Harvie -- Lois Weaver: the college years / Charles L. Hayes -- Jen Harvie interviews Lois Weaver / Jen Harvie and Lois Weaver -- Lois Weaver interviews Muriel Miguel / Lois Weaver and Muriel Miguel -- Virginia started over (from Faith and dancing) / Lois Weaver -- What does it mean to be femme? Virginia was the East (from Faith and dancing) ; Subject and object (from Faith and Dancing) ; Jesus wept (from Faith and dancing) / Lois Weaver -- Citizen femme / Jen Harvie -- A femme on her own / Peggy Phelan -- A woman disguised as a woman: Lois Weaver's fem(me)inist performances / Lisa Duggan -- For Lois: femme glorious / Joan Nestle -- Lois Weaver has great hair / Moe Angelos -- A view from the bottom / Sue-Ellen Case -- A view from the top / Lois Weaver -- Femme cha-cha (from Lust and comfort) / Lois Weaver -- Oh, for the love of work! Lois, love, and work / Jen Harvie -- Looking back from behind ; Fire in my pocket (from Split britches) / Deb Margolin -- Weaver's web / Stacy Makishi -- On Lois, for Lois, because of Lois / Jill Dolan -- The permanence of a performance / Jess Dobkin -- A queer family tree / The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein -- Lois / Elin Diamond -- On the road / Helen Paris -- Staying on the road / Leslie Hill -- Floods (from Miss America) ; You never told me (from Miss America) / Lois Weaver --
• How do you make things work? The good guide for creating a non cooperative; or, how to organise a collective that will last for more than 30 years / Lois Weaver -- Imagine it, make it, change it / Jen Harvie -- Incandescence: the early years at WOW / Cynthia Carr -- WOW: an uncooperative cooperative / Holly Hughes -- Lois Weaver makes the world a less scary place / Rosana Cade -- Taking a seat at the table / Deirdre Heddon -- Long table protocol / Lois Weaver -- Entertaining discussion: The Long table and Porch sitting / Geraldine Harris -- How to behave at a Porch sitting / Lois Weaver -- Lois Weaver and the ethics and etiquette of the Long table / Diana Taylor -- Collaboration / Lois Keidan -- Kinship / Lois Weaver -- Why Tammy? Why not? Tammy interviews Lois ; 'I got into the wrong car in Memphis', 'Demented forsythia, a love song', and 'How do you sing a broken song' / Lois Weaver -- Tammy WhyNot: stage/life superhero / Jen Harvie -- What Tammy taught me... about surviving as a poor girl in the academy / Kim Solga -- Making fun and making time: pedagogic principles / Erin Hurley -- Cupcake velocity: the subversive expertise of Lois Weaver and Tammy WhyNot / Johanna Linsley -- 'Stay gone' / Lois Weaver -- What would you hang on the line? String of lights (adapted from Salad of the Bad Café) ; Diary of a domestic terrorist / Lois Weaver -- Hidden treasures / Jen Harvie -- Lois performs in Aotearoa New Zealand / Catherine Silverstone -- 'Everything's breakable' - or what I learned from Lois Weaver / Benjamin Gillespie -- Talking about When the tide is out / Lois Weaver and Stacy Makishi -- Lois's hidden treasures: What Tammy needs to know about prison / Caoimhe McAvinchey -- Meeting Lois Weaver / Anne Tallentire -- Dear Carmen / Paul Heritage -- Laundry (from Faith and dancing) / Lois Weaver -- Afterwords. 33 ways to start ; Still counting / Lois Weaver -- Postcards -- Lois Weaver timeline / Jen Harvie with Lois Weaver.

Call Number

MWES (Weaver, L.) 16-108

ISBN

• 9781783205349 (pbk.)
• 1783205342 (pbk.)

OCLC

922687776

Title

The only way home is through the show : performance work of Lois Weaver / edited by Jen Harvie and Lois Weaver.

Publisher

Bristol : Intellect Books, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Intellect live ; 4

Intellect live ; 4.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Harvie, Jen, editor.

Weaver, Lois, editor.

Research Call Number

MWES (Weaver, L.) 16-108