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Title

Deviant acts : essays on queer performance / edited by David Cregan.

Publication

Dublin : Carysfort Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

Cregan, David, 1967-

Description

227 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• This book contains an exciting collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. While it highlights the particular representations of gay and lesbian identity it also brings to light how diversity has always been a part of Irish culture and is, in fact, shaping what it means to be Irish today. Inside there are provocative 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. Cathleen Ni Houlihan will never be the same! -- Back Cover.
• Some forty years have passed since the first openly gay character appeared on the Irsih stage, sixteen years since homosexuality was decriminalised and two decades since theories of the queer have disrupted notions of normativity. But where has Irish theatre scholarship been hiding all this time? Finally we have an important collection of essays employing methodologies from literary, theatre andperformance studies disciplines to queer Irish theatre and by so doing, to contest the compulsory heterosexuality of nation building. This collection proudly asserts that queermess and Irishness are conjoined at the performative hip! -- Back Cover.
• Professor Brian Singleton, Trinity College Dublin --Book Jacket.

Subject

• Gay theater > Ireland
• Homosexuality in the theater > Ireland
• Gender identity in the theater

Genre/Form

• essays.
• Essays
• Essais.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781904505426 (pbk.)
• 1904505422 (pbk.)

OCLC

496231806

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library