Contemporary British Queer Performance [Paperback]

This book examines queer performance in Britain since the early 1990s, arguing for the significance of emerging collaborative modes of practice. Using queer theory and the history of early lesbian and gay theatre to examine claims to representation among other things, it interrogates the relationships through which recent works have been presented.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Theorising Queer Performance Claiming Representation: The Performance Politics of Gay Sweatshop Community and Nation: Staging Queer Histories Legitimately Queer: Identity Claims in Theatre-In-Education Pride and Shame: Developments in the Performance of Queer Protest Staging Difference: The Rise of Queer Arts Festivals Networked Identities Notes Bibliography Index

' Stephen Greer's Contemporary British Queer Performance is a welcome addition to critical work on performance practices that engage with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) subjectivities, communities, and politics in the United Kingdom, adding to the range of studies in this area... [The book] will be of particular use to students interested in how performance might be mobilised in the service of individuals, groups, and communities with a range of sexual identifications.' - Catherine Silverstone, Contemporary Theatre Review

STEPHEN GREER Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Aberystwyth, UK. His research focuses on the intersection of queer theory and contemporary performance, and he has published on lesbian and gay representation in theatre-in-education and new media works. He is Associate Producer for the stage and radio comedy team, The Penny Dreadfuls.