Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/feminist Performance

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Sue-Ellen Case
Psychology Press, 1996 - 276 strani
The Split Britches theater company has defined postmodern lesbian/feminism on stage in the U.S. for the past decade and is arguably the single most important experimental theater company to have emerged during this time. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long- awaited celebration of the theater and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, and Deb Margolin, who make up the troupe and who have won two Obies and other distinguished awards for their performance skills, ensemble work, and textual innovation. Their work addresses the central icons of high and popular culture from the perspective of lesbian and feminist gender twists and power inversions--from Weaver and Shaw's lip synching satires (Shaw's send-up of Perry Como, Weaver's Southern dish of Tammy Whynot), and their butch-femme seductions in Belle Reprieve, to Margolin's parodic stagings of a Jewish comedian in the vaudeville spectacle of Beauty and the Beast, to the queer challenges of transexuality in Lust and Comfort.
 

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SPLIT BRITCHES
35
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
59
UPWARDLY MOBILE HOME
87
LITTLE WOMEN
119
BELLE REPRIEVE
149
LESBIANS WHO KILL
185
LUST AND COMFORT
225
Bibliography
273
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Born in 1942, Sue-Ellen Case earned her Bachelor and Master degrees at San Francisco State University before obtaining her Ph.D. at Berkeley. In 1990, after teaching drama at the University of Washington, Case joined the staff at the University of California, Riverside, as an English professor. Case's groundbreaking book, Feminism and Theatre, discusses radical and materialist feminism and its place in feminist theatre. Some of Case's other books include Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays and The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture. Case also edited and wrote the forward to the book, Split Britches, which traces the history of the world's first and most important lesbian-feminist theater company. The book won the Lambda Literary Award for Drama in 1996.

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