O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802135706 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to Sierra Fleischhauer. A beautiful a diverse collection of solo performance magic.
Tim Miller, one of the NEA Four, surveys the landscape of gay desire before and after the advent of AIDS. Peggy Shaw, of Split Britches, revisits how she learned to be butch. The late Ron Vawter, of the Wooster Group, juxtaposes the lives of two very different men who died of AIDS: diva filmmaker Jack Smith and Nixon crony Roy Cohn. The pieces in O Solo Homo touch nerves that run deep from sex, politics, community, and health to the struggles and joys of family, friends, and lovers. And Carmelita Tropicana, the National Songbird of Cuba,” makes an unforgettable, hilarious return to Havana.. O Solo Homo is a diverse, definitive, and hugely entertaining collection representing the cutting edge of queer solo performance
O Solo Homo is a collection of scripts and texts by the most important of these performers. Gay men and lesbians have always taken front and center stage in the theater. O Solo Homo, with witty and informative notes by Hughes and Roman appearing throughout, is a fine introduction to the new queer theater as well as the politics and artistic theory that fuels it. --Michael Bronski. By breaking down traditional ideas of "acting," and by being unafraid of dealing with queer sexual content, they changed the style, form, and substance of alternative and mainstream theater. From Shakespeare's cross-dressing love interests to Oscar Wilde's witty comedies of mismanne