The gender nonconforming and disabled performer is largely absent from Theatre Studies scholarship. Solo theatrical performance, as a self-authored and widely accessible theatrical outlet, presents an opportunity for queer-crip performers to present their gender nonconforming and disabled identities and experiences in ways rarely offered by the mainstream. Through autoethnographic practice research drawing on shared queer-crip performance histories, some of the many performance tools and practices available to the queer-crip performer are interrogated and explored as sites of meaning-making and identity exploration. The key practices explored are postdrama, embodied identity techniques, disidentifications (including cripping and queering), and eroticism and sexuality. The queer-crip's engagement with these techniques in the creation of solo performance presents opportunities for transformative reconfigurations of the self, interpersonal relationships, identity politics, and community relations.
| Date of Award | 10 Mar 2025 |
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| Original language | English |
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| Supervisor | Eric Hetzler (Main Supervisor) |
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