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Playing With Time: Gay Intergenerational Performance Work and the Productive Possibilities of Queer Temporalities

Farrier, Stephen (2015) Playing With Time: Gay Intergenerational Performance Work and the Productive Possibilities of Queer Temporalities. Journal of Homosexuality, 62 (10). pp. 1398-1418. ISSN 0091-8369

Abstract

This article examines the tendencies of LGBT intergenerational theater projects. By engaging with ideas of queer time, temporal drag, and the pervasive heteronormative imagery of heritability and inheritance, this article explores the possibility that LGBT intergenerational projects may generate some of the problems they aim to challenge. Through the lens of queer time, the article describes the normativity generated in LGBT intergenerational theater projects as a form of restrictive interpellation. The article explores the temporal complexities at play in such theater productions as The Front Room, a specific LGBT intergenerational theater project performed in the United Kingdom in 2011. The article concludes by noting some ways in which intergenerational theater projects might seek to work through the embodiment of the historical quotidian as a mode of resistance to normativity’s recirculation.

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