Queer Dramaturgies

Mojisola Adebayo, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Alyson Campbell, University of Melbourne, Australia. Cüneyt Çak?rlar, Nottingham Trent University, UK. T.L. Cowan, The New School, New York City, USA.  Sean F. Edgecomb, City University of New York, USA. João Florêncio, University of Exeter, UK.  Stephen Greer, University of Glasgow, Scotland Deirdre Heddon, University of Glasgow, UK. R. Justin Hunt, University of Lincoln, UK. Amahl Khouri, Lebanese American University, Lebanon Bryce Lease, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Nando Messias, Theo Adams Company, UK. Tim Miller, Independent Performer, USA. Sarah Mullan, Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Lazlo Pearlman, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. Eliza Steinbock, Leiden University, The Netherlands Fintan Walsh, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Melissa Wansin Wong is, City University of New York, USA.

• Introduction; Alyson Campbell and Stephen Farrier PART I: THE NOTION OF A NATION 1. In Warsaw's New York: Krzysztof Warlikowski's Queer Interventions; Bryce Lease 2. Kisses Cause Trouble Le Vrai Spectacle: Queering the French, Frenching the Queer; Lazlo Pearlman 3. Performing Singapore's Queer Quandary: Walking the Tightrope between Sexual Illegality and Neoliberal-enabled Subjectivity at Pink Dot and in Loo Zihan's Cane; Melissa Wansin Wong 4. Unsettling the Patriot: Troubled Objects of Masculinity and Nationalism; Cuneyt Cakirlar 5. No Matter Where I goL; Amahl Khouri 6. After Documentary Theatre: Exceptionality in National Theatre Wales' The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning; Stephen Greer 7. Everything You Know About Queerness You Learnt From Blackness: The Afri-Quia Theatre of Black Dykes, Crips and Kids; Mojisola Adebayo PART II: QUEER RETURNS: LOCATING QUEER TEMPORALITIES 8. A Hybrid Present Embodified: Dialectical Mimesis on the Translocal Cabaret Stage. Cesar Enriquez's Disertaciones de la Chingada and Alexandra Tigchelaar's Les Demimondes; T.L. Cowan 9. Evoking the Strange Within: Performativity, Metaphor, and Translocal Knowledge in Derek Jarman's Blue; Joao Florencio 10. That Lip-Syncing Feeling: Drag Performance as Digging the Past; Stephen Farrier 11. Queer Debts & Bad Documents: Taylor Mac's Young Ladies Of; R. Justin Hunt 12. Taking an Affective Approach to 'doing' Queer Histories in Performance: Queer Dramaturgy as a Reparative Practice of Erotohistoriography; Alyson Campbell 13. Queer Anachronisms: Reimagining Lesbian History in Performance; Sarah Mullan PART III: QUEER MOVEMENTS: HOME AND AWAY 14. Cripqueer Performance: a dialogue. An Interview with Margrit Shildrick and Robert McRuer; Alyson Campbell and Stephen Farrier 15. Sissy That Walk: The Sissy's Progress; Nando Messias 16. Hand To Hand; Tim Miller. With an introduction by Deirdre Heddon 17. Taking it Lying Down: On the Labour of Gender Non-Compliance in Doran George's Live Art; Eliza Steinbock 18. Queer Performance and the Drama of Disorientation; Fintan Walsh 19. Queer Kinesis: Performance, Invocation, Transformation; Sean F. Edgecomb Afterword Index

“Queer Dramaturgies brings together a collection of essays, by both up-and-coming and established queer scholars, specializing in the study of the live experience of queer performances rather than textual or abstract theoretical analysis. … Queer Dramaturgies delivers a fresh smattering of essays valuable to queer studies, performance studies, and any amalgam of the two.” (Helen Deborah Lewis, Studies in Theatre and Performance, August, 2016)“Alyson Campbell and Stephen Farrier bring together the work of international performance scholars and makers in a meticulously edited and necessary volume which offers productive new ways of identifying, historicizing, theorizing, and analyzing what makes dramaturgy queer. … The volume thus offers a vibrant look at the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance, providing an accessible book and inspiration for undergraduates, and a reminder for more experienced performance scholars and makers about why queer performance matters.” (Francisco Costa, New Theatre Quarterly, July, 2016)