Theatre and Sexuality

Jill S. Dolan

• Verlag: Methuen Drama
• Jahr: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781350316324
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Medien & darstellende Kunst
• Thema: Theatergeschichte & -kritik

Theatre & Sexuality explains the critical validity of using sexuality as a lens for examining theatre's creation and reception. The book offers clear introductions to sexual identity politics, ways of 'reading' sexuality on stage and a select history of LGBTQ theatre, including a reading of Split Britches/Bloolips' production Belle Reprieve.

index

ABC, 12

ability, 1

Acting Gay, 86

Actor’s Playhouse (New York), 15, 21–22

Acts of Intervention, 87

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), 10–11

Advocate, The, 81

Albee, Edward, 7

Alfaro, Luis, 45

Alvin Theatre (New York), 56

Andrews, Julie, 17

Angelos, Moe, 35

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1990–92), 50, 52–53

Arrizón, Alicia, 88

Arts Lobby, 26

As Is (1985), 42

assimilation, 10–11, 23, 43, 45, 82

At the Foot of the Mountain (Minneapolis), 54

audience, 4, 16, 18, 22, 24, 27, 43, 46, 56, 59

of Belle Reprieve, 62, 64, 65–66, 68, 73, 74, 76–77, 79

direct address of, 38, 40–41, 59, 62, 65–66, 68

mainstream, 20, 58, 59, 82

authenticity, 81, 82

authorship, 4, 14, 38

autobiography, 20, 43, 47–48, 49, 87

in Hughes’ work, 29–30

in Kron’s work, 36–38

in Miller’s work, 40–41

in Shaw’s work, 32

avant-garde theatre, 5, 20, 35, 38–48, 58, 75, 77–78

Avenue of the Streets (New York), 31

AZT, 42–43

Ballet Russes, 26

Baltimore Waltz, The (1992), 50

Beauty and the Beast (1982), 31

Belle Reprieve (1991), 4–5, 17, 59–80

Benjamin, Walter, 52

Berkeley, Busby, 26

Bernstein, Robin, 87

Best, Eve, 81–82

‘Blogging on Queer Connections in the Arts and the Five Lesbian Brothers’, 36

Bloolips, 3, 4, 5, 59, 63

Bogart, Anne, 50...