Queer Theatre & Performance

(5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This module will introduce students to a wide range of lesbian, bisexual, gay, trans*, 2-spirit, and queer (LGBT2Q) theatre and performance. Students will engage with critical theory, play texts, various genres of performance, and some film and video to interrogate what LGBT2Q theatre and performance are and how they have developed in the English-speaking world. Looking at texts from the 1960s to the present, the changing status of LGBT2Q identities and queer performance practices will be examined in relation to the local context of their production and in relation to the international character of queer discourses. Special attention will be paid to the intersections of sexual identity and race, class, gender and nation.