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 Brothe...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Davy, Kate
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
WOW Cafe Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Lesbian theater > New York (State) > New York.
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
Lesbian theater.
Theâtre lesbien > New York (État) > New York.
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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