This book examines sexuality, gender and race in Australias vibrant independent theatre and performance culture. It analyses selected feminist and queer performances that interrogate the cultural construction of sexuality and gender, challenge the normative trends of mainstream Australian society and culture and open up spaces for alternative representations of gender identity and sexual expression. Offering the first full-length study on sexuality and gender in Australian theatre since 2005, this book reveals a resurgence of feminist themes in independent performance and explores the intersection of feminist and queer politics. Ranging across drag, burlesque, cabaret, theatre and performance art, the book provides an accessible and engaging account of some of the most innovative, entertaining and politically subversive Australian theatrical works from the past decade.
1. Introduction: Staging Queer Feminisms.- 2. Pleasure, Pain and the Politics of Affect: Moira Finucanes Gotharama and The Feast of Argentina Gina Catalina.- 3. Queer Femme Drag and Female Narcissism in Yana Alanas Between the Cracks.- 4. Disidentifying with The Good Indigenous Citizen: Constantina Bush and Blak Cabaret.- 5. Queering History, Race and Nation in Sisters Grimms Summertime in the Garden of Eden and The Sovereign Wife.- 6. Spectacle, Community and Memory in the Feminist Performance Art of Brown Council.- 7. Radical Feminist Adaptation in The Rabbles Orlando, Story of O and Frankenstein.- 8. Fighting the Power Never Tasted So Sweet: Hot Brown Honey and Concluding Remarks.- Bibliography.- Index.-
Sarah French is Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she completed her PhD in Creative Arts. She has lectured in Theatre and Cinema Studieslså
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