Stephen Greer

Queer exceptions

Solo performance in neoliberal times

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Produktbeschreibung

A major study of solo performance in the UK and Europe that examines the significance of exceptional lives in neoliberal times. With case studies drawn from theatre, comedy and live art, it combines insights from gender studies, politics and sociology to present a new queer account of subjectivity at the start of the twenty-first century. -- .

Produktdetails

• Theatre: Theory â Practice â Performance
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781526113696
• ISBN-10: 1526113694
• Artikelnr.: 53568635

Autorenporträt

Stephen Greer is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Practices at the University of Glasgow

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Locating solo performance
2. The martyr: dramaturgies of endurance, exhaustion and confession 3. The
pariah: queer outcasts and the politics of wounded attachment 4. The
killjoy: public unhappiness and theatrical scapegoats 5. The stranger:
performing 'out-of-placeness' in the UK and Europe 6. The misfit: illness,
disability and 'improper' subjects 7. The optimist: alternatives to
neoliberalism in the here and now Conclusion References Index