Putting Your Daughters on the Stage: Lesbian Theatre from the 1970s to the 1990s
Starting with the left-wing fringe theatre of the 1960s, Putting Your Daughters on the Stage comprehensively traces lesbian involvement in the Gay Sweatshop performances of the 1970s to the development of lesbian-specific theatre companies such as Red Rag, Hard Corps and Shameful Practice.\ Using her insight as a playwright, Freeman side-steps the limitations of a dogmatic terminology, and reveals how closely lesbian theatre is connected with the inner feelings of its participants. Extensive...
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Starting with the left-wing fringe theatre of the 1960s, Putting Your Daughters on the Stage comprehensively traces lesbian involvement in the Gay Sweatshop performances of the 1970s to the development of lesbian-specific theatre companies such as Red Rag, Hard Corps and Shameful Practice.Using her insight as a playwright, Freeman side-steps the limitations of a dogmatic terminology, and reveals how closely lesbian theatre is connected with the inner feelings of its participants. Extensive interviews with key figures in the history of lesbian theatre provide the basis for a wealth of lively excerpts in which these lesbian actors, producers, thinkers and playwrights explore what engaged them in their work and why they did things in certain ways.Freeman addresses some of the important ideological issues reflected in both women's theatre and other fringe productions including the portrayal of the lesbian character, the appropriation of venues as 'lesbian spaces', the role of the Arts Council and state subsides and the ways in which these have both restricted and facilitated the evolution of lesbian theatre.BooknewsIn this history and critical discussion of lesbian theater in the UK, Freeman (European studies, U. of Sussex) draws on interviews with playwrights, and the theories of Lacan, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Derrida, and Freud. Topics include the meaning of the term "lesbian," the development of alternative British theater, and the work of such groups as Gay Sweatshop and the Siren Theater Company, and such authors as Nina Rapi and Phyllis Nagy. Distributed by Books International. Paper edition (33309-3), $16.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Introduction1The Meaning of the Word 'Lesbian'12The Development of Alternative Theatre in Britain103Gay Sweatshop194Siren Theatre Company485Coventry Lesbian Theatre Group: Hormone Imbalance, Hard Corps and Double Vision676Nitty Gritty and Shameful Practice877Red Rag, Spin/Stir and Mrs Worthington's Daughters1008A Look at Venues: Kate Crutchley, the Oval House and Character Ladies; Julie Parker and the Drill Hall1249A Handful of Authors: Nina Rapi, Phyllis Nagy, Bryony Lavery and Sarah Daniels13610Messages and Audiences166Conclusion183AppList of Plays Mentioned in the Text188Select Bibliography190Index193
\ BooknewsIn this history and critical discussion of lesbian theater in the UK, Freeman (European studies, U. of Sussex) draws on interviews with playwrights, and the theories of Lacan, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Derrida, and Freud. Topics include the meaning of the term "lesbian," the development of alternative British theater, and the work of such groups as Gay Sweatshop and the Siren Theater Company, and such authors as Nina Rapi and Phyllis Nagy. Distributed by Books International. Paper edition (33309-3), $16.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
