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Ghosts of Leigh is a one-act play that explores effeminacy through the gender-bending performance of fashion designer and 1980s nightclub denizen Leigh Bowery. The play’s target audience is high school students.
Production Details
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Staged reading : August 2017
Director : Scott Alderdice
Dandelion Jones read by Logan Mathews
Leigh Bowery read by George Harris
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Scripted Explorations of Gender and Sexuality Offer a Rich Sense of Place
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 23 no. 2 2019;
— Review of Ghosts of Leigh 2017 single work drama -
Ghosts of Leigh: Scripting the Monstrous Effeminate
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: New Writing , vol. 14 no. 3 2017; (p. 327-347)'This article describes how a practice-led research methodology used to produce a creative writing artefact, a short play aimed at a high school audience, had a transformative impact on a number of levels: on the artefact, on the writing practice itself and on the author’s own self-knowledge in terms of gender identity and subjectivity. The creative writing artefact in question is a short stage play entitled Ghosts of Leigh, an exploration of the gender-bending club culture of the 1980s. The play is set in regional Queensland, Australia, which, at that time, was a strongly homosocial and homophobic environment. The script and this article explore the notion of effeminacy as a monstrous masculinity of considerable discursive potency that simultaneously disrupts both masculinity and femininity. The article also discusses how the practice-led research methodology itself facilitated the development of fresh understandings around effeminacy and how these new understandings interacted with the author’s lived gender and embodied subjectivity.' (Abstract)
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Scripted Explorations of Gender and Sexuality Offer a Rich Sense of Place
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 23 no. 2 2019;
— Review of Ghosts of Leigh 2017 single work drama -
Ghosts of Leigh: Scripting the Monstrous Effeminate
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: New Writing , vol. 14 no. 3 2017; (p. 327-347)'This article describes how a practice-led research methodology used to produce a creative writing artefact, a short play aimed at a high school audience, had a transformative impact on a number of levels: on the artefact, on the writing practice itself and on the author’s own self-knowledge in terms of gender identity and subjectivity. The creative writing artefact in question is a short stage play entitled Ghosts of Leigh, an exploration of the gender-bending club culture of the 1980s. The play is set in regional Queensland, Australia, which, at that time, was a strongly homosocial and homophobic environment. The script and this article explore the notion of effeminacy as a monstrous masculinity of considerable discursive potency that simultaneously disrupts both masculinity and femininity. The article also discusses how the practice-led research methodology itself facilitated the development of fresh understandings around effeminacy and how these new understandings interacted with the author’s lived gender and embodied subjectivity.' (Abstract)
