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Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw
Peggy Shaw
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Description for Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw
Paperback. Editor(s): Dolan, Jill. Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ANB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
Obie-award-winning performer and writer Peggy Shaw has been playing her gender-bending performances on Off Broadway, regional, and international stages for three decades. Co-founder of the renowned troupe Split Britches, Shaw has gone on to create memorable solo performances that mix achingly honest introspection with campy humor, reflecting on everything from her Irish-American working-class roots to her aging butch body. This collection of Shaw's solo performance scripts evokes a 54-year-old grandmother who looks like a 35-year-old man (in her classic Menopausal Gentleman); a mother's ambivalent ministrations to a daughter she treated like a son (in the raw You're ... Read more
Obie-award-winning performer and writer Peggy Shaw has been playing her gender-bending performances on Off Broadway, regional, and international stages for three decades. Co-founder of the renowned troupe Split Britches, Shaw has gone on to create memorable solo performances that mix achingly honest introspection with campy humor, reflecting on everything from her Irish-American working-class roots to her aging butch body. This collection of Shaw's solo performance scripts evokes a 54-year-old grandmother who looks like a 35-year-old man (in her classic Menopausal Gentleman); a mother's ambivalent ministrations to a daughter she treated like a son (in the raw You're ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
Condition
New
Weight
356g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472034147
SKU
V9780472034147
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About Peggy Shaw
Scholar, critic, and theorist Jill Dolan is Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama at the University of Texas, Austin. She is author of The Feminist Spectator as Critic; Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, and Performance; and Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and Performance.
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