DRA332 - Performance, Sexuality, Identity - 2023/24

This module analyses relationships between performance, sexuality and identity and the ways in which performance might be deployed in the service of specific political and cultural agendas. Through a consideration of a range of companies, performers, playwrights, organisations, photographers, filmmakers, and criticism, the module will consider a variety of topics which may include, but are not limited to: theories and histories of sexuality; marriage, civil partnerships and performativity; gay and lesbian theatre; trans identities; drag; HIV/AIDS; activism. In the module of this work you will consider the ways in which sexual identities intersect with other identity-forming discourses such as gender, ethnicity and class.