Authenticity in Contemporary Theatre and Performance: Make it Real (Methuen Drama Engage) PDF
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Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers Methuen Drama Engage offers original reflections about key practitioners, movements and genres in the fields of modern theatre and performance. Each volume in the series seeks to challenge mainstream critical thought through original and interdisciplinary perspectives on the body of work under examination. By questioning existing critical paradigms, it is hoped that each volume will open up fresh approaches and suggest avenues for further exploration. Series Editors Mark Taylor-Batty University of Leeds, UK Enoch Brater University of Michigan, USA Titles Authenticity in Contemporary Theatre and Performance by Daniel Schulze ISBN 978-1-3500-0096-4 Drama and Digital Arts Cultures by David Cameron, Michael Anderson and Rebecca Wotzko ISBN 978-1-472-59219-4 Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis by Vicky Angelaki ISBN 978-1-474-21316-5 Watching War on the Twenty-First-Century Stage: Spectacles of Conflict by Clare Finburgh ISBN 978-1-472-59866-0 Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History by Maurya Wickstrom ISBN 978-1-4742-8169-0 Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre: Politics, Affect, Responsibility by Marissia Fragkou ISBN 978-1-4742-6714-4 Robert Lepage/Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space by James Reynolds ISBN 978-1-4742-7609-2 Social Housing in Performance: The English Council Estate on and off Stage by Katie Beswick ISBN 978-1-4742-8521-6 Postdramatic Theatre and Form Edited by Michael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish and Brandon Woolf ISBN 978-1-3500-4316-9 Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship Liz Tomlin ISBN 978-1-4742-9560-4 For a complete listing, please visit https://www.bloomsbury.com/series/methuen-drama-engage/ Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1 Edited by Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier Series Editors Mark Taylor-Batty and Enoch Brater METHUEN DRAMA Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA BLOOMSBURY, METHUEN DRAMA and the Methuen Drama logo are trade- marks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2020 Copyright © Mark Edward, Stephen Farrier and contributors, 2020 Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Editors of this work. Series design by Louise Dugdale Cover artwork © Mark Wardel / Trademarkart.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: HB: 978-1-3500-8294-6 ePDF: 978-1-3500-8296-0 eBook: 978-1-3500-8295-3 Series: Methuen Drama Engage Typeset by Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. This volume is dedicated to the drag warriors and the fabulous kings and queens of performance from the past and present. We salute the drag worker, butching, femming (or both), glamming or trashing on small stages throughout the world. We acknowledge the personal and transformative effort of your art form, which takes risk, investment and bravery. And heartfelt respect goes to those practising drag in places where there are legal restrictions, state laws and hostile, dangerous social environments; we admire and support you. Keep being dragulous! For those yet to experience the many landscapes of drag, welcome. Mind your step; the floor’s probably sticky. Contents List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgements xvi Foreword Mark Ravenhill xviii Preface Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier xxi 1 Drag: Applying Foundation and Setting the Scene Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier 1 2 Dragging the Mainstream: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Moving Drag Practices between the USA and the UK Joe Parslow 19 3 Race for the Money: The Influence of RuPaul’s Drag Race on the Livelihood and Aesthetics of New York City’s Drag Culture Kalle Westerling 33 4 Chinoiserie Drag: Masquerading as the Oriental Other Rosa Fong 45 5 ‘It’s Always Better Performing with the Troupe’: Space, Place and Collective Activism Jae Basiliere 59 6 Of Hills and Wheels: Tilda Death Drags Memory Raz Weiner 73 7 A Transfeminist Critique of Drag Discourses and Performance Styles in Three National Contexts (US, France and UK): From RuPaul’s Drag Race to Bar Wotever Kayte Stokoe 87 8 Not a Cock in a Frock, but a Hole Story: Drag and the Mark of the ‘Bioqueens’ Stephen Farrier 103 9 Destabilization through Celebration: Drag, Homage and Challenges to Black Stereotypes in the Practice of Harold Offeh Kieran Sellars 117 10 Gender Euphoria: Trans and Non-Binary Identities in Drag Olympia Bukkakis 133 viii Contents 11 The Tranimal: Throwing Gender out of Drag? Nick Cherryman 145 12 Drag Kings and Queens of Higher Education Mark Edward 159 13 Drag Publique: The Queer Spectacle, the Emaciated Spectator and the Public Secret Allan Taylor 173 14 ‘Blessed Is the Fruit’: Drag Performance, Birthing and Religious Identity Chris Greenough and Nina Kane 189 Index 206 Illustrations 1.1 Horrora Shebang (Otto Baxter) at Alternative Miss World, 2018 2 6.1 Tilda Death in performance. Clipa Theatre, 2018 80 8.1 Holestar 108 9.1 Harold Offeh in Covers 118 9.2 Harold Offeh in Covers 119 9.3 Harold Offeh as his drag alter-ego Divana 125 10.1 Olympia Bukkakis at Get Fucked in 2016 142 11.1 Austin Young, Untitled Tranimal Portrait 147 11.2 Austin Young, Portrait of Squeaky Blonde, and Austin Young, Untitled Tranimal Portrait 152 12.1 Mark Edward performing at Henry Africa’s in 1989 160 13.1 Poor, Unsuspecting Cow, Glamping, Angus Og and Wishing You Were Here 176 13.2 Appliqué test shot 177 13.3 Image from the performance Stripper Vicar 179 13.4 Image from the performance Shopping’s A Drag 181 13.5 Teenage girl takes selfie with me in drag 183 13.6 Image from the performance Executive Realness 186 14.1 Virgin and Child by Fiorenzo di Lorenzo 196 14.2 Sr Polly Amarosa of the Blessed Mercy Beau Cul and Bona Aris, Manchester Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, campaigning for LGBT* people in Chechnya, Manchester Pride, 2018 201
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