Double acts, theatrical couples, and split britches' 'double agency'

New Theatre Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 211-221

  Harris, Geraldine ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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EID: 61949315743     PISSN: 0266464X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266464X02000301     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. For Double Agency: Suzy Wilson (director), Paul Clarke (music), Annabel Lee (design), Aideen Malone (lighting), Hannah Leach (production and stage management), words by Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, performed by Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver.
2. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, The Spivak Reader, ed. D. Landry and G. Maclean (London; New York: Routledge, 1996), p. 289.
3. Gill Davis, 'Goodnight Ladies: on the Explicit Body in Performance', New Theatre Quarterly, XV, No. 58 (1999), p. 187.
4. Sue-Ellen Case, ed. , Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance (London; New York: Routledge, 1996), p. 15.
5. Jill Dolan, 'Performance, Utopia, and the "Utopian Performative",' Theatre Journal, LIII (2001), p. 478.
6. Philip Auslander, From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism (London; New York: Routledge, 1997), p. 62-4.
7. Sara Ahmed, Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (London; New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 157.
8. Case, Split Britches, p. 5.
9. Linda Hart and Peggy Phelan, 'Queerer Than Thou: Being and Deb Margolin', Theatre Journal, XLVII, No. 2 (1995), p. 278.
10. Mistinguett, Mistinguett by Mistinguett, trans. L. Hill (London: Elek, 1954).
11. See also Geraldine (Gerry) Harris, 'Regarding History: Some Stories Concerning the Café-Concert, the Music Hall, and the Feminist Academic', The Drama Review, XL, No. 4 (1996).
12. Mistinguett, Mistinguett, p. 242.
13. See also Maurice Chevalier, Ma route et mes chansons, Vol. 1. (Paris: Julliard, 1946).
14. Rolf Gunter Renner, Edward Hopper, trans. M. Hulse (Hamburg: Benedickt Taschen, 1990), p. 7.
15. Cited in the programme notes for Double Agency.
16. Hart and Phelan, 'Queerer than Thou', p. 280.
17. See Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: on the Discursive Limits of 'Sex' (London; New York: Routledge, 1993).
18. Ahmed, Strange Encounters, p. 156.