Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories

Mark Edward is a pracademic and Reader in Creative Arts at Edge Hill University, UK. His publications include Mesearch and the Performing Body (2018). Professionally he has worked for Rambert Dance Company and performed with the renowned American performance artist Penny Arcade in her work Bad Reputation (2004) and in Jeremy Goldstein’s Truth to Power Café (2018). Mark is also the writer and producer of the immersive performance and film installation Council House Movie Star (2012) featuring his drag persona Gale Force. Stephen Farrier is Reader in Theatre and Performance at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. With Alyson Campbell he has coedited Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (2015) as well as a themed edition of RIDE, The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance named the ‘Gender and Sexuality Issue’.

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Penny Arcade
Preface Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier


1. Dragging up the Past - Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier
2. ‘Once upon a time, there was a tavern’: metadrag and other uses of the past at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern - Ben Walters
3. Camp and Drag in the Mainstream: A Critical Study of the Phenomenon of Drag performance in the Northern British Fun Pubs, 1973-1993 - Chris D’Dray
4. Soldiers in Skirts: Cross-Dressing Ex-Servicemen, Sexuality, and Censorship in Post-War Britain - Jacob Bloomfield
5. Kinging the Stage: Male impersonators and drag kings, exploring shared historical narratives - Stephen Farrier
6. A Kiss that Breaks the Spell: Japanese “Drag Kings” and the Homosocial Culture of the Takarazuka Revue - Isabelle coy-dibley
7. Camp can be such a drag: Approaches to understanding camp and drag - Simon Dodi
8. Vonni Diva: Showgirl - Rosslyn Prosser
9. FagHag Drag: Penny Arcade’s Archive of Otherness - Joseph Mercier with Penny Arcade
10. Nobody’s Trash: Holly Woodlawn’s Puerto Rican Drag and the Subversion of Authorship - Gabriel Mayora
11. Bibi is a Sissy: Drag, Death by Silence and the Journey to Self-Determination - Nando Messias
12. Mother Sally and The Fig Leaf: Re/Productions of A Carnival Character in Barbados - Nick Ishmael-Perkins
13. The Buttcracker: Dragging Ballet into Queer Places - Mark Edward and Helen Newall
14. Oh wow! He’s queer! Queering Panto in Belfast: An Interview with Ross Anderson-Doherty - Alyson Campbell and Trish McTighe
15. Wicked Queens of Pantoland - Simon Sladen

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