Dramaturgy of sex on stage in contemporary theatre / edited by Kate Mulley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mulley, Kate, 1983- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Focus on dramaturgy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in the theater.

Drama--21st century--History and criticism.

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 131 pages).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Kate Mulley is an internationally acclaimed playwright, librettist, lyricist, producer and dramaturg whose work explores gender, power, place and desire through a feminist, and often historical, lens. Her plays and musicals have been performed in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and China.

Contents:

(Still) shopping and (still) fucking : the stylistics of queer desire on stage / Giorgios Sampatakakis

Respectable queer sex : criteria for permissible representations in contemporary mainstream theatre / Joey Baseil Massa

Depicting queer sexual discovery in contemporary British fringe theatre / Alexander Millington

All tomorrow's parties : structures of feeling in verbatim theatre / Shane Kinghorn

"To be titled" / Lindsey Barr

Dancing on a knife's edge : performing violent co-dependency in Bryony Lavery and Frantic Assembly's Stockholm / Karen Morash

Dramaturgy of precariousness : the real, realness, and spectatorship of sex in Dead centre's good sex / Huayu Yang

Mette Ingvartsen's "The red pieces" series : sex, dance, erasing power structures and ungendered bodies / Anne Lempicki

Commodification of women's bodies : staging the consequences / Sophie Bastien

Masculinity and commercial sex from the perspective of Giuliana Musso's Sexmachine / Stefania Lodi Rizzini

Context, cliche, and other considerations for staging female desire / Cha Ramos and Claire Warden

Monstrous desires : devouring sexuality and sapphic succubus in contemporary dramatic writings in France / Leïla Cassar

Patriarchy structures and depictions of patriarchal sex in contemporary theatre / Kate Mulley

Interrogating racialized sexual violence in slave play / Jessica Ellison

Sexual assault and the criminal justice system : multi-roling and the naked female body in Breach Theatre's It's true, it's true, it's true / Hannah Simpson

Sex between macabre lust and clinical dissection in Dea Loher's Dramaturgy / Youn Le Guern-Herry

Applications of dramaturgy in the physical creation of sexual violence on stage / Cha Ramos and Meron Langsner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 23, 2024).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Dramaturgy of sex on stage in contemporary theatre

ISBN:

9781003159933

1003159931

9781040008935

1040008933

9781040009000

104000900X

Publisher Number:

40032241708

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.