The Efficacy/Effeminacy Braid: Unpicking the Performance Studies/Theatre Studies Dichotomy

The Efficacy/Effeminacy Braid: Unpicking the Performance Studies/Theatre Studies Dichotomy

Notes that in the popular imagination, theatre is still linked integrally and stereotypically with homosexuality. Discusses various critical debates of the 1960s about the linguistic and conceptual divorce of theatre and theatricality from performance and performativity. Concludes that if Theatre St...

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Published in:Theatre topics Vol. 13; no. 2; p. 173
Main Author: Bottoms, Stephen J
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 01-09-2003
Subjects:
Curriculum
Educational Objectives
Higher Education
Homosexuality
Teacher Attitudes
Theater Arts
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Summary:Notes that in the popular imagination, theatre is still linked integrally and stereotypically with homosexuality. Discusses various critical debates of the 1960s about the linguistic and conceptual divorce of theatre and theatricality from performance and performativity. Concludes that if Theatre Studies has an enemy at all, it is in its own tendency to undervalue itself. (PM)
ISSN:1054-8378