THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Heterosexuality
13 Mar 2017
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An early example of devised theatre (1979: script is collaborative, improvised. Cloud nine: the product of a workshop on gender and colonialism, 3 week workshop, 12 weeks of writing, 6 week rehearsal (cultural context: colonial england, the british empire, on which the sun never sets ruled by men. Who are also white straight, in principle family structure is the nucleus of this social structure. 1967 sexual revolution: play written (cid:883)(cid:884) years after the (cid:498)summer of love(cid:499) (cid:523)(cid:883)9(cid:888)(cid:889)(cid:524) Sore objectives of the play: to destabilize the expectations about gender identity, to indicate the ongoing role of colonial ideologies in shaping identity practices. Key ideas: gender is not the same as biological sex, (eterosexuality is not the (cid:494)natural consequence(cid:495) of biological sex, gender and ethnicity are social constructions. How do stories we grow up with structure the way we see the world: cloud nine asks:
