Learn more about Trajal Harrel and The Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble.
RELATED EVENTS
RELATED EVENTS
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GET THEE TO THE LIBRARY
GET THEE TO THE LIBRARY
Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.
- Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, editors, Queer Nightlife. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2021.
- Ramsay Burt, The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities. New York: Routledge, 2022.
- Annette J. Saddik, Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess: The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015.
READ ALL ABOUT IT
READ ALL ABOUT IT
On the Catwalk With Tennessee Williams
“Through rhythmic juxtaposition and perfect pacing, [Harrell] creates alternating states of chaos and calm, of joy and excitement, bewilderment and bathos.”
Review: Maggie the Cat at Manchester International Festival
“For Maggie the Cat, the individual (the upholstery, the fashion, the act) is exploded, explored through the body of the company, ‘our help.’
Maggie the Cat review – wit and passion abound
“Applause doesn’t seem quite enough; it’s a thrilling work, both free and beautifully structured, profound and exhilarating.”
WORKS CITED
WORKS CITED
Harrell makes nuanced use of a wide range of influences, from Tennessee Williams to Sophocles to the Harlem voguing underground. Spend some time with each of these inspirations before the show.
“Three Players of a Summer Game” by Tennessee Williams
Williams based “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” off of his own short story, published several years before the premiere of the play – find an earlier iteration of Brick & Maggie in the archive.
“Home Fire” by Kamila Shamsie
This contemporary adaptation of Sophocles’ “Antigone” was part of the 2019 NYU Skirball Book Club – learn more about it & read an excerpt.
“Paris is Burning”
Paris Is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed over a period of seven years from the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the Black, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it.
