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The Discreet Charm of Recollection

Author(s): Grzegorz Stępniak
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: Performing Arts; Split Britches; Review

Summary/Abstract: text devoted to the history of the American lesbian/feminist Split Britches performance group. The author lists the group’s most important projects, where the butch/femme relationship forms the axis of their constructions. Part two of the article reviews the group’s latest performance, Lost Lounge (2009). In this self-reflexive play about a romance between two aging female artists, Split Britchesraises the topic of setting memory strategies in motion (theirs and the audience’s), and evokes recollections that seemed to be irrevocably lost.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 108
  • Page Range: 36-40
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish