The changing room : sex, drag, and theatre
Laurence Senelick (Author)
"Cross-dressing is an important theatrical technique. It creates a new reality, provides alternatives, unleashes the imagination and enables actors to provoke otherwise repressed responses in audiences. The Changing Room examines: the origins of the dame comedian, the principal boy, the glamour drag artiste and the male impersonator; artists such as David Bowie, Boy George, Charles Ludlam, Dame Edna Everage, Lily Savage, Candy Darling, Julian Clary, and The New York Dolls; the gender-bending elements of Greek and early Christian religion; the homosexual appeal of the boy actor on the traditional stage of China, Japan and England; and tribal rituals and shamanic practices in Africa, Australia, the Balkans, Korea and Tibet." "Illustrated with unusual and rare pictures, this is the first ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism. It is a must for anyone interested in cross-dressing, theatre, and gender." -- Book jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
Routledge, London, 2000