Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers : Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater /

"Out of a small, hand-to-mouth, women's theater collective called the WOW Cafe located on the lower east side of Manhattan, there emerged some of the most important theater troupes and performance artists of the 1980s and 1990s, including the Split Britches Company, the Five Lesbian Brothers, Carmel...

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Autore principale: Davy, Kate
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010.
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Sommario:
  • Introducing WOW: "A miracle on E. 4th Street"
  • Women are laughing again: allied faces
  • Sex, drag, and rock 'n' roles: the festivals
  • Feminist space and a system of anarchy: the storefront
  • Staging the unimaginable: New York's East Village club scene
  • Challenging whiteness: the fourth-floor walk-up
  • "Learning to walk on our hands"
  • Appendix: WOW Production history.