Split Britches - Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe.
This unique anthology comes complete with:
* seven of Split Britches' best loved performance texts
* a critical, historical introduction by Sue-Ellen Case
* programme notes to accompany each of the plays
* a range of stunning photographic illustrations
The publication of the Split Britches play texts, collected here for the first time, provides invaluable access to these celebrated performance pieces for both the student and contemporary arts audience.

List of contents

1. Split Britches 2. Beauty and the Beast, 3. Upwardly Mobile Home, 4. Little Women, 5. Belle Reprieve 6. Lesbians Who Kill, 7. Lust and Comfort.

About the author

Sue-Ellen Case is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside

Summary

This is a long-awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding lesbian performance troupe.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sue-Ellen Case (Editor), Case Sue-Ellen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.1996
• EAN: 9780415127660
• ISBN: 978-0-415-12766-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 476 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; The arts: general issues, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Feminism & feminist theory, Sex & sexuality, sex manuals, Performance Art, Feminism and feminist theory, Sex and sexuality: advice and issues, The arts: general topics