Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers
Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater
dc.contributor.author | Davy, Kate | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-27T13:59:42Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-07-27T13:59:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier | ONIX_20230727_9780472904099_63 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64172 | |
dc.description.abstract | Out of a small, hand-to-mouth women's theater collective called the WOW Café 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. Appearing on the cultural scene at a critical turning point in both the women's movement and feminist theory, WOW put a witty, hilarious, gender-bending, and erotically charged aesthetic on stage for women in general and lesbians in particular. Featured performers included the Split Britches Company, the Five Lesbian Brothers, Carmelita Tropicana, Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron, Deb Margolin, Reno, Peggy Shaw, and Lois Weaver. For three decades the WOW Café Theatre has nurtured fledgling women writers, designers, and performers who continue to create important performance work. Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers offers the first critical history of the WOW Café, based on dozens of interviews with WOW performers and other participants, newspaper reviews of the earliest productions, and unpublished photographs, and suggests why the collective has had such amazing longevity and an enduring legacy. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Theater and Performance | |
dc.subject.other | Gender Studies - Women's Studies | |
dc.subject.other | Sexuality Studies | |
dc.subject.other | American Studies | |
dc.title | Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers | |
dc.title.alternative | Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater | |
dc.type | book | |
oapen.identifier.doi | 10.3998/mpub.192640 | |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 | |
oapen.relation.isFundedBy | b5941080-3f20-4864-95c6-753acff7c9f4 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9780472904099 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9780472051229 | |
oapen.collection | Big Ten Open Books | |
oapen.place.publication | Ann Arbor | |
oapen.grant.number | [...] | |
oapen.grant.program | Big Ten Open Books | |
oapen.grant.project | Big Ten Open Books — Gender and Sexuality Studies Collection |