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In this work, I promote a dialogue between Drama and Performance
Studies concerning the performance of gender in everyday life and
on the stage. While Judith Butler and others have argued that the
performativity of gender must be examined outside of theatre, I
argue that theatre can provide us with a unique lens through which
to examine aspects of gender that can be overlooked in everyday
life. The plays and performance art I have chosen highlight
different modes of performing gender through representations of the
female body, which introduce the tension between the discursively
produced body and the lived, phenomenological body onstage. By
exploring this tension, I argue that the performativity of gender
onstage arises from a combination of words, the presentation of
tangible bodies, and the audience's response to the stage action. I
bring together iconic playwright Samuel Beckett with Cuban-American
performance artist Ana Mendieta and Irish playwright Marina Carr in
order to represent different modes of performance. This study
should prove useful for scholars in theatre, performance studies,
and gender studies, who are interested in examining gender in a
theatrical context.
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