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A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance),Used
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With classic butch finessethat handsome combination of vulnerability and toughnessPeggy Shaw pieces together the challenges of growing up butch in the 1950s. Shaw is an engaging performer and inspired writer.'Gay Community NewsObieawardwinning performer and writer Peggy Shaw has been playing her genderbending performances on Off Broadway, regional, and international stages for three decades. Cofounder of the renowned troupe Split Britches, Shaw has gone on to create memorable solo performances that mix achingly honest introspection with campy humor, reflecting on everything from her IrishAmerican workingclass roots to her aging butch body.This collection of Shaw's solo performance scripts evokes a 54yearold grandmother who looks like a 35yearold man (in her classic Menopausal Gentleman); a mother's ambivalent ministrations to a daughter she treated like a son (in the raw You're Just Like My Father); Shaw's love for her biracial grandson, for whom she models masculinity (in the musically punctuated To My Chagrin); and a mapping of her body's long, bittersweet history (in the lyrical Must: The Inside Story, a collaboration with the UK's Clod Ensemble). The book also includes a selection of Shaw's other classic monologues and an extensive introduction by Jill Dolan, Professor of English and Theater and Dance at Princeton University and the blogger behind The Feminist Spectator website.A volume in the series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/PerformanceCover photos by Eva Weiss (top) and Robin Holland/robinholland.com (bottom).
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