The Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre and
The International Workshop Festival
are pleased to announce that:

BOOKING IS NOW OPEN FOR

This one-day critical exploration and
performance-presentation:

Feminist Neo-Burlesque

at the Central School of Speech and Drama,
University of London

Friday 26th October 2007,
4pm – 10:30pm

£30 full price / £15 concessions

Please contact cett@cssd.ac.uk by 5pm on 19th October to book your place.
Payment for the event must be received in full before tickets are issued.

Speakers: Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths … Lara Clifton, Artistic Producer of The Whoopee Club … Sheryl Dodds, University of Surrey … Darlinda Just Darlinda, New York … Liselle Terret, Central School of Speech and Drama … Diane Torr, Glasgow School of Art

Performers : Empress Stah … Ryan Styles … Russella … Pia Arber … Darlinda Just Darlinda…Lexi Van Gosh…Miss Polly Teacup…Red Sarah … Miss Fancy Chance … Doris La Trine and more….

- The event will begin with a roundtable discussion from 4pm
- A buffet supper and drinks will be served from 6:30pm
- Performances will begin at 7:30pm

The event will bring together theatre makers, theatre thinkers and theatre students to ask:

Is the resurgence of burlesque a continuation of the exploitation of women’s bodies or is it potentially part of a new feminism?

Is this performance genre, originally used as a performative platform for women to comment on social and political issues, being reclaimed in the contemporary moment?

Can neo-burlesque be mobilised as a critical space of queer performativity, exploring male and trans burlesque?