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This anthology explores how theatre and performance use home as the
prism through which we reconcile shifts in national, cultural, and
personal identity. Whether examining parlor dramas and kitchen sink
realism, site-specific theatre, travelling tent shows, domestic
labor, border performances, fences, or front yards, these essays
demonstrate how dreams of home are enmeshed with notions of
neighborhood, community, politics, and memory. Recognizing the
family home as a symbolic space that extends far beyond its walls,
the nine contributors to this collection study diverse
English-language performances from the US, Ireland, and Canada.
These scholars of theatre history, dramaturgy, performance,
cultural studies, feminist and gender studies, and critical race
studies also consider the value of home at a time increasingly
defined by crises of homelessness - a moment when major cities face
affordable housing shortages, when debates about homeland and
citizenship have dominated international elections, and when
conflicts and natural disasters have displaced millions. Global
struggles over immigration, sanctuary, refugee status and migrant
labor make the stakes of home and homelessness ever more urgent and
visible, as this timely collection reveals.
LESBIAN & QUEER PLAYS FROM THE JANE CHAMBERS PRIZE edited by
Maya E. Roth and Jennifer-Scott Mobley with a preface by Jill Dolan
and an afterword by Sara Warner This volume, the first of two,
gathers five plays from the history of the Jane Chambers Prize:
UNSPEAKABLE ACTS by Mary F. Casey, FULL/SELF by Claire Chafee, THE
SIEGELS OF MONTAUK by Meryl Cohn, A LIVE DRESS by MJ Kaufman and
FEMMES by Gina Young. THE JANE CHAMBERS PRIZE recognizes plays and
scripts for performance written by a woman that present a feminist
perspective and significant roles for female performers. This
annual award is given in memory of lesbian playwright Jane Chambers
who, through her plays and activism became a major feminist voice
in American theater. This publication is a collaboration between
WTP and NoPassport Press.
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