Deviant acts : essays on queer performance / [electronic resource] edited by David Cregan. - 1 online resource (238 pages) : color illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Queering Oscar: versions of Wilde on the Irish stage and screen / The politics of camp: queering parades, performance, and the public in Belfast / Lesbian version of the female biography play: Emma Donoghue's I know my own heart and Ladies and gentlemen / Touching, feeling, cross-dressing: on the affectivity of queer performance, or, What makes Panti fabulous / Edward Martyn's theatrical hieratic homoeroticism / The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival / Sexuality and the dysfunctional city: queering segregated space / Gender as performance in the works of Glasshouse Productions, Dublin / Queer wanderers, queer spaces: dramatic devices for re-imagining Ireland / "Crying" on "Pluto": queering the "Irish question" for global film audiences / Living by the code: authority in The gay detective / "There's nothing queer here": the Abbey Theatre and the problem of practice / David Cregan -- Eibhear Walshe -- Kathryn Conrad -- Mária Kurdi -- Fintan Walsh -- Michael Patrick Lapointe -- Brian Merriman -- Niall Rea -- Samuele Grassi -- Tod Barry -- Charlotte McIvor -- Kathleen A. Heininge -- David Cregan.

9781909325197 (e-book)


Gay theater--Ireland.
Gender identity in the theater.
Homosexuality in the theater--Ireland.


Electronic books.

PN2601 / .D48 2009

792.0866409415