Queer Exceptions - Solo Performance in Neoliberal Times

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Greer is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Practices at the University of Glasgow Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figuresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 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 ReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Greer, Greer Stephen
• Assisted by: Maggie B. Gale (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781526113702
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1370-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre: Theory - Practice - P; Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Monologues & Scenes, Theatre Studies, Theatre: individual actors & directors, Gender studies, gender groups, Individual actors and performers