Book chapter
Staging the Queer Archive: soldiergirls in Process
Dramaturgy and History, pp.60-67
Routledge
2025
DOI: 10.4324/9781032636337-11
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the new musical in development, soldiergirls-a two-person musical comedy that tells Esther Herbert and Marvyl Doyle's World War II love story and explores the formation of the Women's Army Corps, its unlikely sparks of queer liberation, and the fracturing of gender expectations in the 1940s and today. Adelsheim examines the process of researching and developing the show through queer adaptation, devising, and transformation of archival material into a musical through queer forms including camp, collage, comedy, and pastiche, and offers dramaturgical approaches for working with the archive in the developmental rehearsal room. Adelsheim uses these methods to think through queer historiography, the queer archive, and dramaturgical approaches to theatre that insist on the slippage and elision of past and present in queer people's lives.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Staging the Queer Archive: soldiergirls in Process
- Creators
- Ryan Adelsheim
- Contributors
- Caitlin A. Kane (Editor)Erin Stoneking (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Dramaturgy and History, pp.60-67
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781032636337-11
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York, NY
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- Theatre Arts
- Record Identifier
- 9984944731902771
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