"With classic butch finesse---that handsome combination of
vulnerability and toughness---Peggy Shaw pieces together the
challenges of growing up butch in the 1950s. Shaw is an engaging
performer and inspired writer."
---"Gay Community News"
Obie-award-winning performer and writer Peggy Shaw has been
playing her gender-bending performances on Off Broadway, regional,
and international stages for three decades. Co-founder of the
renowned troupe Split Britches, Shaw has gone on to create
memorable solo performances that mix achingly honest introspection
with campy humor, reflecting on everything from her Irish-American
working-class roots to her aging butch body.
This collection of Shaw's solo performance scripts evokes a
54-year-old grandmother who looks like a 35-year-old man (in her
classic "Menopausal Gentleman"); a mother's ambivalent
ministrations to a daughter she treated like a son (in the raw
"You're Just Like My Father"); Shaw's love for her biracial
grandson, for whom she models masculinity (in the musically
punctuated "To My Chagrin"); and a mapping of her body's long,
bittersweet history (in the lyrical "Must: The Inside Story," a
collaboration with the UK's Clod Ensemble). The book also includes
a selection of Shaw's other classic monologues and an extensive
introduction by Jill Dolan, Professor of English and Theater and
Dance at Princeton University and the blogger behind "The Feminist
Spectator" website.
A volume in the series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer
Theater/Drama/Performance
Cover photos by Eva Weiss (top) and Robin Holland/robinholland.com
(bottom).
General
Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance |
Release date: |
July 2011 |
First published: |
July 2011 |
Authors: |
Peggy Shaw
|
Editors: |
Jill Dolan
|
Introduction by: |
Jill Dolan
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
216 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-11647-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Individual actors & performers
|
LSN: |
0-472-11647-9 |
Barcode: |
9780472116478 |
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