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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Ghosts of Leigh
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

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

  • 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

First known date: 2017

Works about this Work

Scripted Explorations of Gender and Sexuality Offer a Rich Sense of Place Stayci Taylor , 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 Dallas J. Baker , 2017 single work drama
Ghosts of Leigh: Scripting the Monstrous Effeminate Dallas J. Baker , 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)

Scripted Explorations of Gender and Sexuality Offer a Rich Sense of Place Stayci Taylor , 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 Dallas J. Baker , 2017 single work drama
Ghosts of Leigh: Scripting the Monstrous Effeminate Dallas J. Baker , 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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