Staging Queer Lives: An Ethnographic Exploration

Abstract

What makes theatre so fruitful and meaningful as a venue of queer representation? And why does it matter? By exploring my own experiences as a queer theatre maker working on a production of Fun Home here at Princeton, as well as speaking with artists from New York, I hope to investigate these questions, incorporating anthropological ideas of liminality and ritual, theory on the narrative formation of the self, and, of course, some traditional gender theory.