Queer Exceptions - Solo Performance in Neoliberal Times

A major study of solo performance in the UK and Europe that examines the significance of exceptional lives in neoliberal times. With case studies drawn from theatre, comedy and live art, it combines insights from gender studies, politics and sociology to present a new queer account of subjectivity at the start of the twenty-first century.

List of contents

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Locating solo performance
2. The martyr: dramaturgies of endurance, exhaustion and confession
3. The pariah: queer outcasts and the politics of wounded attachment
4. The killjoy: public unhappiness and theatrical scapegoats
5. The stranger: performing 'out-of-placeness' in the UK and Europe
6. The misfit: illness, disability and 'improper' subjects
7. The optimist: alternatives to neoliberalism in the here and now
Conclusion
References
Index

About the author

Stephen Greer is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Practices at the University of Glasgow

Summary

A major study of solo performance in the UK and Europe that examines the significance of exceptional lives in neoliberal times. With case studies drawn from theatre, comedy and live art, it combines insights from gender studies, politics and sociology to present a new queer account of subjectivity at the start of the twenty-first century. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Greer, Greer Stephen
• Assisted by: Maggie B. Gale (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781526113696
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1369-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Theatre Theory Practice Perfor; Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre Theory Practice Perfor; Theatre: Theory - Practice - P; Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Europe, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Monologues & Scenes, Theatre Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Gender studies, gender groups, Individual actors and performers