The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre

An authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds. The confluence of gender and theatre has long created a site of intense debate about the roles of men, women, and other gendered identifications. Whether it''s Shakespeare''s cross-dressed boys or the banning of women in traditional kabuki or on-going reflections of two-spirit ontologies in American Indian and First Nations performances, the matter of gender has frequently taken centre stage. The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre examines how critical discourses on gender (understood through intersectional and transnational frames) intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies, as a lens to illuminate the practices of both gender and theatre as well as the societies they inform and represent across space and time.Of interest to scholars in the interrelated areas of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, globalization studies, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and transnational and diasporic studies, its specially commissioned essays demonstrate how researchers are currently handling theatre about gender issues and gendered theatre practices. While synthesizing and summarizing foundational and evolving debates from a contemporary perspective, this is a collection that offers interpretations and analyses that do not simply look back at existing scholarship, but open up new possibilities, paradigms and understandings of gender and theatre.Featuring a series of essential research tools, including a detailed list of resources and an annotated bibliography of key texts, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance.>

List of contents

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
About this Book
Acknowledgements

PART 1: ORIENTATIONS AND REORIENTATIONS
1.i. Introduction: Gender and Theatre, Sean Metzger (UCLA, USA) and Roberta Mock (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
1.ii. Keywords: Gender, Trans, and Intersectionality, Carla Neuss (Baylor University, USA)
1.iii. Framing Theatre and Gender through Indigenous Performance Practices: A Roundtable, Tammy Haili'opua Baker (Writer and Director of Ka Halau Hanakeaka, Hawaii), Leslie Ishii, (Artistic director of Perseverance Theatre, Alaska) and Hanay Geiogamah (Founder of the American Indian Dance Theatre), with Sean Metzger and Roberta Mock
1.iv. Gender as Method: Brecht, Mao, and Objects of History, Hentyle Yapp (UC San Diego, USA)

PART 2: GEOPOLITICS AND BIOPOLITICS
2.i. Introduction to Part 2, Sean Metzger (UCLA, USA) and Roberta Mock (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
2.ii. Disobedient Women and Theatre Historiography in India, Swati Arora (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
2.iii. Gender Politics in the Cabaret Theatre of Jesusa Rodríguez and Astrid Hadad, Analola Santana (Dartmouth College, USA)
2.iv. Afro/Caribbean Crossings: Gaël Octavia, Guy Régis Jr, and Sex/Gender/Theatre Work with Heteroimperiality, Christian Flaugh (SUNY University at Buffalo, USA)
2.v. The Intersectional Politics of Nakkiah Lui's Blackie Blackie Brown and How to Rule the World, Sarah French (University of Melbourne, Austrailia) and Sandra D'Urso (Independent scholar, Australia)
2.vi. Uncanny Masculinity: Disrupting White Male Privilege in Two Contemporary Canadian Plays, Peter Kuling (University of Guelph, Canada) and Kim Solga (Western University, Canada)
2.vii. False Bound Feet and Forged Paintings: Propping up Gender in Early Modern Chinese Theatre, S. E. Kile (University of Michigan, USA)
2.viii. Schrödinger's Pussy: Slave Actors and Fluid Desire in Early Roman Comedy, Amy Richlin (UCLA, USA)

PART 3: TRANSMEDIA
3.i. Introduction to Part 3, Sean Metzger (UCLA, USA) Roberta Mock (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
3.ii. Dead Girl Walking: Girlhood and Happy-Endings in Heathers: The Musical, Joanne 'Bob' Whalley (University of the Arts London, UK) and Lee Miller (Falmouth University, UK)
3.iii. Theatrical Transing and the Virtuosic Self, Lazlo Pearlman (Santa Clara University, USA)
3.iv. Stage Body, Stage Gender: Kabuki Actors and Print Identity in Early Modern Japan (1600-1868), Satoko Shimazaki (UCLA, USA and Waseda University, Japan)
3.v. Gender Performance, Sexual Play, and Early Modern Holiday Games, Erika Lin (Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)
3.vi. 'Who's Invited to the Cookout?': The Spectralization of Black Women in Theatre and New Media, Kimberly Chantal Welch (UCLA, USA)
3.vii. Cultural Genitals and the Emancipated Fembot: Performing Gender, Race, and Technology in Cyborg Theatre, Evelyn Wan (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

PART 4: GENRE AND THEATRICAL FORM
4.i. Introduction to Part 4, Sean Metzger (UCLA, USA) Roberta Mock (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
4.ii. Rethinking Gender in the Hispanic Comedia, Barbara Fuchs (UCLA, USA)
4.iii. Post-Folkloric Drag: México de Colores and the Theatricalization of Gender, Enzo E. Vasquez Toral (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
4.iv. Staging Femme Excess in the Work of Lucy McCormick, Selina Thompson, and Travis Alabanza, Sarah Gorman (Roehampton University, UK) and Roberta Mock (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
4.v. Performing Vulnerable Masculinity in Northern Ireland's Post-Conflict Documentary Theatre, Lisa Fitzpatrick (Ulster University in Derry, UK)
4.vi. Becoming Afriqueer: Conjuring Alternative Masculinities Through Site-Specific Performance, April Sizemore-Barber (Georgetown University, USA)
4.vii. Towards a Trans Theatre, Sylvan Oswald (UCLA, USA)

PART 5: RESOURCES AND BACK MATTER
5.i. Annotated Play Lists, Devon Baur (UCLA, USA) and Elizabeth Schiffler (UCLA, USA)

Index

About the author

Sean Metzger is Professor and the Associate Dean for Faculty and Students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, USA.

Roberta Mock is Professor of Performance and Executive Dean of the School of Performing and Digital Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Metzger, Roberta Mock
• Assisted by: Sean Metzger (Editor), Metzger Sean (Editor), Roberta Mock (Editor), Mock Roberta (Editor)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781350123175
• ISBN: 978-1-350-12317-5
• No. of pages: 552
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Methuen Drama Handbooks
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Gender studies, gender groups