TaPRA 2019

(Re)Performing myself through Frankie, Larry and Kenneth.  This paper will address the complex layers of identity that are evident in historical male camp performance, by speaking about my current PhD project: a practice-as-research examination of male camp identity in British popular... Read More →

“Charly and Family come home to Bath”: The On- and Off-Stage Masculinities of a Touring Entertainer (1899 – 1904). In August 1899, Bath-born “Refined Entertainer” Carl Fredericks joined Charles W. Poole’s No. 1 Myriorama tour in Dublin along with his wife, daughter and... Read More →

Dragging identities – or how to make drag even queerer.Drag, in certain quarters of the critical landscape, is the epitome of the social construct of gender and such critical positions somehow seem to ignore the performer’s relationship to the persona they inhabit (or who apparently... Read More →