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Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?

and Other Stand-up Theatre Plays
BookPaperback
Ranking79187inSprachen
CHF23.90

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Five stand-up theatre plays from 'the female counterpart to Quentin Crisp' (Evening Standard)Who does Claire Dowie think she is? In Adult Child/Dead Child she invented an imaginary friend to be all the things she wasn't allowed to be... In Why is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt? She hated being a girl but what's the alternative? In Death and Dancing she was determined to be anything she wanted to be... In Drag Act Mother would have been proud. In Leaking From Every Orifice she was a lesbian, had a sexual relationship with a gay man and ended up pregnant...'She makes you laugh as she kicks you in the teeth' (Guardian)
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-413-71090-1
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date14/10/1996
SeriesModern Plays
Pages160 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 201 mm, Thickness 9 mm
Weight162 g
Article no.2113780
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.9570485
Product groupSprachen
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Claire Dowie is a writer, performer, poet, comedian and pioneer of Stand-Up Theatre, often associated with the In-Yer-Face approach to theatre-making. After starting out on the alternative comedy circuit, she switched to stand-up comedy and writing plays. Her first major work, Adult Child/Dead Child, won a Time Out Award in 1988. Other works include Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?, Easy Access (For the Boys), All Over Lovely, Cat and Mouse, Death and Dancing and The Year of the Monkey.