Introduction
Kate Mulley
Part I: Depicting Sexual Discovery and Identity
1. (Still) Shopping and (Still) Fucking: The Stylistics of Queer Desire on Stage
George Sampatakakis
2. Respectable Queer Sex: Criteria for Permissible Representations in Contemporary Mainstream Theatre
Joey Baseil Massa
3. Depicting Queer Sexual Discovery in Contemporary British Fringe Theatre
Alexander Millington
4. All Tomorrow’s Parties: Structures of Feeling in Verbatim Theatre
Shane Kinghorn
Part II: Depicting Stylized Sex
5. Disability and Desire: Multimodal Exploration in Deaf West’s Spring Awakening
Lindsey R. Barr
6. Dancing on a Knife’s Edge: Performing Violent Co-Dependency in Bryony Lavery and Frantic Assembly’s Stockholm
Karen Morash
7. A Dramaturgy of Precariousness: The Real, Realness, and Spectatorship of Sex in Dead Centre’s Good Sex
Huayu Yang
8. Mette Ingvartsen’s “The Red Pieces” Series: Sex, Dance, Erasing Power Structures and Ungendered Bodies
Anne Lempicki
Part III: Depicting Transactional Sex
9. Commodification of Women’s Bodies: Staging the Consequences
Sophie Bastien
10. Masculinity and Commercial Sex from the Perspective of Giuliana Musso’s Sexmachine
Stefania Lodi Rizzini
Part IV: Depicting Female Desire
11. Context, Cliche, and Other Considerations for Staging Female Desire
Cristina (Cha) Ramos and Claire Warden
12. Monstrous Desires: Writings of Sexuality in Contemporary Feminist Dramatic Writings in France
Leïla Cassar
Part V: Depicting Sexual Violence
13. Patriarchy Structures and Depictions of Patriarchal Sex in Contemporary Theatre
Kate Mulley
14. Interrogating Racialized Sexual Violence in Slave Play
Jessica Ellison
15. Sexual Assault and the Criminal Justice System: The Naked Female Body in Breach Theatre’s It’s True, It’s True, It’s True
Hannah Simpson
16. Sex Between Macabre Lust and Clinical Dissection in Dea Loher’s Dramaturgy
Youn Le Guern-Herry
17. Applications of Dramaturgy in the Physical Creation of Sexual Violence on Stage
Meron Langsner and Cristina (Cha) Ramos
Biography
Kate Mulley is an internationally acclaimed playwright, librettist, lyricist, producer and dramaturg whose work explores gender, power, place and desire through a feminist, and often historical, lens. Her plays and musicals have been performed in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and China.
"Through the lenses of many writers, the book covers a range of topics and genres from musicals to plays, verbatim theatre, fringe, and dance performances. The book magnifies power structures and exposes how they are maintained in theatre while providing a critical lens to queering and dismantling these structures onstage and off. [...] I would recommend this book to directors, intimacy coordinators, actors, artistic directors, educators and anyone in the development process and creation of theatre. I believe that this book is revolutionary and should be on the shelves of every university library. It provides an excellent scope of contemporary sexual theatre history and shares a lens for artists to transform the view of sex onstage in the future."
Charlotte W. Roberts, Loyola Marymount University, USA, in Theatre Research International, 49(3)
