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050 00 $aPN1968.U5$bD38 2010
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100 1 $aDavy, Kate.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81049799
245 10 $aLady dicks and lesbian brothers :$bstaging the unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre /$cKate Davy.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $axi, 233 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aTriangulations: lesbian/gay/queer-- theater/drama/performance
500 $aIncludes index.
505 00 $gChapter 1.$tIntroducing Wow: "A Miracle on E. 4th Street" --$gChapter 2.$tWomen Are Laughing Again: Allied Farces --$gChapter 3.$tSex, Drag, and Rock ǹ' Roles: The Festivals --$gChapter 4.$tFeminist Space and a System of Anarchy: The Storefront --$gChapter 5.$tStaging the Unimaginable: New York's East Village Club Scene --$gChapter 6.$tChallenging Whiteness: The Fourth-Floor Walk-Up.
520 1 $a""After hosting two annual international women's performance festivals in 1980 and '81, peggy shaw, Lois Weaver, and comrades put on such extravaganzas as the Freudian Slip Party and the Debutante Ball (a coming out party if ever there was one) to raise the first several months' rent for a narrow vestibule on East 11th Street, Where they could keep the creativity going year-round. There, on a stage no bigger than a queen-sized mattress, ...artists honed their craft, giving birth to a celebratory feminist-and-finsel-tinged queer aesthetic. By the mid' 80s...the rent quadrupled, and WOW moved to a city-owned building on East 4th Street, Where it has flourished ever since, presenting hundreds---if not thousands-of plays, solo shows, concerts, dance pieces, cabarets, and sundry performances that defy classification."---Alisa Solomon, Village Voice" "Out of a Small, hand-to-mouth, women's theater collective called the Wow Cafe 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, including the Split Britches Company, the Five Lesbian Brothers, Carmelita Tropicana, Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron, Deb Margolin, Reno, Peggy Shaw, and Lois Weaver. the Wow (Women's One World) Cafe Theatre appeared on the Cultural Scene at a Critical turning point in both the women's movement and feminist theory, putting a witty, hilarious, gender-bending, and erotically charged aesthetic on the stage for women in general and lesbians in particular." "The storefront that became the Wow Cafe Theatre saw dozens of excitingly original and enormously funny performances created, staged, and turned over at lightning speed-a kind of "hit and run" theater. As the demands on the space increased, the women behind Wow organized as a collective and moved their theater to an abandoned doll factory where it continues to operate today. for three decades the Wow Cafe has nurtured fledgling women writers, designers, and performers who continue to create important performance work." "Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers provides a critical history of this avant-garde venture whose ongoing "system of anarchy" has been largely responsible for its thirty-year staying power, after dozens of other women's theaters have collapsed. Wow artists were creating a wholly original cultural landscape across which women could represent themselves on their own terms. parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and an unbridled eroticism are hallmarks of Wow's aesthetic, combined-importantly and powerfully---with a presumptive address to the audience as if everyone onstage, in the audience, and in the world is lesbian. Author kate Davy's extensive research included in depth interviews with wow veterans; newspaper reviews of the earliest productions; and rare, unpublished photographs. the book also includes a chronology of productions that have highlighted WOW's performance schedule since the early '80s." ""A rich and detailed picture of a particular historical moment that has now passed...I Found myself immersed in the world of the East village theatre scene and its connections to the East Village theatre scene and its connections to the larger world of feminism, theatre and politics. Davy's longstanding association with this world pays off handsomely-it is impossible to imagine that anyone could write a more informative portrait."---Charlotte Canning University of Texas at Austin"--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aWOW Café Theatre (New York, N.Y.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010012342
650 0 $aMusic-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aLesbian theater$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
830 0 $aTriangulations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98016750
852 00 $bglx$hPN1968.U5$iD38 2010
852 00 $bbar$hPN1968.U5$iD38 2010