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Queer exceptions: Solo performance in neoliberal times
Artist/Author: Stephen Greer | Reference: P3988 | ISBN: 978-1526113696 | Type: Publication

A study of post-millennial solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Critical Theory and Performance
Editor: Janelle G. Reinelt, Joseph R. Roach | Reference: P3952 | ISBN: 978472064588 | Type: Publication

Presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres.  Revised and Enlarged Edition

AIDS Bertolt Brecht body cabaret Cantonese opera circus critical race theory cyberspace dance Dwight Conquergood gender studies historiography history HIV Jazz Jill Dolan labour LGBT Molier Molière money opera Peggy Phelan performance analysis performance art play politics postcolonial studies psychoanalysis Richard Schechner ritual semiotics sexuality stand-up street theatre William Shakespeare

Across the Art/Life Divide: Performance, Subjectivity, and Social Practice in Contemporary Art
Artist/Author: Martin Patrick | Reference: P3591 | ISBN: 978-1783208548 | Type: Publication

Explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres.

Alison Knowles appropriation authenticity authorship curating Dan Peterman Dave Chappelle democratisation Dick Higgins everyday Experimental Station Gramsci Monument Gregory Sholette identity Kallio Kunstahlle Our Literal Speed performance representation Richard Pryor self SHOW 7 sketch Spalding Gray stand-up Steev Martin Temporary Services The Suburban

What the **** is Normal?!
Artist/Author: Francesca Martinez | Reference: P3569 | ISBN: 978-0753555354 | Type: Publication

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … disabled? 

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Acting Out: Feminist Performances
Editor: Lynda Hart, Peggy Phelan | Reference: P3492 | ISBN: 978-0472064793 | Type: Publication

The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism
Artist/Author: Philip Auslander | Reference: P3503 | ISBN: 978-0415157870 | Type: Publication

Surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.

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Unlimited 2016 programme
Reference: P3046 | Type: Publication

Programme for the 2016 Unlimited festival, celebrating the artistic vision and originality of disabled artists.

Southbank Centre, 6-11 September.

Aaron Williamson Assisted Suicide: The Musical Beautiful Octopus Club Candoco Dance Company Cherophobia Chickenshed Claire Cunningham Company Collective Creatures of the Revolution dance Death Cafe Denise Saul documentation film Grandad and the Machine installation Jack Dean Jess Curtis Jess Thom Just a Few Words Katie O'Reilly Liz Carr Lost Voice Guy Nama Ato Noemi Lakmaier performance Rachel Bagshaw Roll Over Sit Down StammerMouth stand-up Tales From the Shed The Shape of the Pain The Way You Look (at me) Tonight theatre Tim Barlow Touretteshero Unfixed You and I Know

A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Artist/Author: Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris | Reference: P2840 | ISBN: 978-1137518200 | Type: Publication

Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance.

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100 Acts of Minor Dissent
Artist/Author: Mark Thomas | Reference: P2779 | ISBN: 978-1910463031 | Type: Publication

An account of an entire year spent living provocatively. From successful campaigns against Royal Parks and multinationals, to arts and crafts with porn mags, from annoying estate agents, to raising cinema workers' wages, comedian and campaigner Mark Thomas stopped at nothing.

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Tune in to… Radio Radio
Artist/Author: Mel Brimfield | Reference: D2184 | ISBN: 9783936919813 | Type: DVD

A double CD of selected items and several hour-long radio broadcasts produced and curated by Mel Brimfield, who spent a year and a half collecting, commissioning and honing submissions for 24 hours' worth of content. 

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