Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance / Edition 1

by Sue-Ellen Case

Overview

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe.
This unique anthology comes complete with:
* seven of Split Britches' best loved performance texts
* a critical, historical introduction by Sue-Ellen Case
* programme notes to accompany each of the plays
* a range of stunning photographic illustrations
The publication of the Split Britches play texts, collected here for the first time, provides invaluable access to these celebrated performance pieces for both the student and contemporary arts audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415127653
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/27/1996
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sue-Ellen Case is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside

Table of Contents

1. Split Britches 2. Beauty and the Beast, 3. Upwardly Mobile Home, 4. Little Women, 5. Belle Reprieve 6. Lesbians Who Kill, 7. Lust and Comfort.

Editorial Reviews

A collection of essays detailing the intermingling conceptions of race, class, and gender among Black professionals. Hine (American History, Michigan State U.) intersperses her analysis with interviews of lawyers, nurses, teachers, and artists to compile a view which encompasses the particular historical experience of a class of people transformed by the Civil Rights Movement and feminism. Specifically, she discusses recognizable persons such as Anita Hill, Booker T. Washington, and Miles Davis, while generally reviewing the class histories of Black lawyers, nurses, and health care professionals. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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