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queer theory Reference library
Richard Niles
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
... male impersonation ) and lesbian performance has provoked conflicting responses from queer critics. Sue-Ellen Case , one of the foremost scholars of feminist performance, believes that ‘butch/femme’ role playing can make use of camp's wit and irony ‘free from biological determinism, elitist essentialism, and the heterosexist cleavage of sexual difference’ ( Towards a Butch–Femme Aesthetic , 1989 ). Kate Davy , among others, disagrees and finds that lesbian theatre is ‘encumbered’ by camp because it cannot help but reinscribe the patriarchal privilege it...
realism and reality Reference library
The Companion to Theatre and Performance
...behaviour. By contrast, realistic drama, such as Ibsen's Hedda Gabler ( 1890 ) and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard ( 1904 ), located the suffering of the characters in their social values and psychological self-deceptions, though a strain of economic, social, and hereditary determinism may operate in these plays as well. 2. The new realistic drama served as a catalyst for *actors and *directors who attempted to develop new realistic methods of acting and staging. Indeed, the figure of the director (e.g. *Saxe-Meiningen , *Reinhardt , Granville *Barker...
realism and reality Reference library
Thomas Postlewait
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...By contrast, realistic drama, such as Ibsen's Hedda Gabler ( 1890 ) and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard ( 1904 ), located the suffering of the characters in their social values and psychological self-deceptions, though a strain of economic, social, and hereditary determinism may operate in these plays as well. 2. The new realistic drama served as a catalyst for actors and directors who attempted to develop new realistic methods of acting and staging. Indeed, the figure of the director (e.g. Saxe-Meiningen , Reinhardt , Granville Barker )...
Bolt, Robert (15 Aug. 1924) Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
..., filmed 1967 ), on Thomas More 's martyrdom, places private conscience above duty to the state and established Bolt, a former history teacher, as a popular portraitist of charismatic historical figures. Vivat! Vivat Regina! ( 1970 ), about Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, made less impact, however. He adopted mildly Brechtian techniques but rejected Marxist determinism. In State of Revolution ( 1977 ), Bolt's Lenin is a great man serving a dangerous ideology. Bolt's Lunacharsky says, ‘The personal is of course peripheral’; all Bolt's plays and...
