Table Of Contentviral dramaturgies
HIV and AIDS in Performance
in the Twenty-First Century
edited by Alyson Campbell and Dirk Gindt
Viral Dramaturgies
Alyson Campbell • Dirk Gindt
Editors
Viral Dramaturgies
HIV and AIDS in Performance in the Twenty-First
Century
Editors
Alyson Campbell Dirk Gindt
VCA Department of Culture and Aesthetics
University of Melbourne Stockholm University
Melbourne, VIC, Australia Stockholm, Sweden
ISBN 978-3-319-70316-9 ISBN 978-3-319-70317-6 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70317-6
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A
cknowledgments
First of all, we would like to thank all the contributors for their enthusi-
asm, knowledge and patience.
For valuable editorial advice and support, we are indebted to Jennifer
Audsley, Aengus Carroll, Kim Davis, Peter Dickinson, Steve Farrier, Ola
Johansson, Dion Kagan, Kat Low, Monica Pearl and John Potvin.
Special thanks to Ann Fox for her positive feedback and sensitive
recommendations.
For careful editorial guidance and for genuinely believing in this proj-
ect, we thank Vicky Bates, Jen McCall, April James, Victoria Peters and
Felicity Plester at Palgrave. Our warmest gratitude goes to Manahoran
Vanipriya and our production team for their support and patience.
Obrigado, Natalia Mallo and Renata Carvalho, for your work and
understanding.
Hats off to all the ensembles and playwrights who gave permission to
quote from their work and the visual artists and photographers who gave
permission to reproduce their images.
Alyson would like to thank:
Her parents, Malcolm and Anne Campbell, for giving over their attic
and supplying endless sustenance—nutritional and emotional—to support
the writing; Kim Donaldson and Sandra Radovini of Moggs Creek, for
space and care at a vital moment; Callum Dale, Jonathan Graffam, Ruth
McCarthy, Trish McTighe and Kurt Taroff; The Faculty of VCA and
MCM, The University of Melbourne, for research funding and sabbatical
time to complete this work. Warm thanks to her colleagues and students
at the VCA, particularly Draf Draffin and the graduate theatre team, who
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bore the brunt of any teething issues; and Dirk, for his unceasing rigour,
determination and brilliance.
Dirk would like to thank:
Alyson, for your dedication and for generously sharing your deep
knowledge—thank you for making this happen (over three continents and
up to fourteen time zones); Lena Hammergren, Karin Helander, Tiina
Rosenberg and my colleagues at Stockholm University; my inter/national
students; my friends Sabine Gräter, Susanna Magnusson and Ashley
McAskill; my parents Wilma Haase and Georges Gindt; Spencer, for
unconditional love; my husband John Potvin, for unfailing encourage-
ment, intellectual inspiration, friendship and love.
c
ontents
Section 1 Introduction 1
1 Viral Dramaturgies: HIV and AIDS in Performance
in the Twenty-First Century 3
Alyson Campbell and Dirk Gindt
Section 2 Women’s Voices and Experiences 47
2 GL RY: A (W)hole Lot of Woman Trouble. HIV
Dramaturgies and Feral Pedagogies 49
Alyson Campbell
3 Staging Decriminalisation: Sex Worker Performance
and HIV 69
Elena Jeffreys and Janelle Fawkes
4 ‘The Press/Supress/Our Stories of Happiness/They
Choose to Define Us/As “Suffering Headliners”’: Theatre-
Making with Women Living with HIV 91
Katharine Low, Matilda Mudyavanhu, and Shema Tariq
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Section 3 Generations, Memories and Temporalities 111
5 ‘ Still (Mighty) Real’: HIV and AIDS, Queer Public
Memories, and the Intergenerational Drag Hail 113
Peter Dickinson
6 A IDS Memorialisation: A Biomedical Performance 133
Marc Arthur
7 R e-membering AIDS, Dis-membering Form 155
Stephen Farrier
8 F inding ‘Creative Rebellious Gay Boys’ in the US AIDS
Archive and Repertoire with the Aid of Bakhtinian
Centrifugal Tendencies 173
Jayson A. Morrison
Section 4 Inter/national Narratives 193
9 P erforming Interventions: The Politics and Theatre
of China’s AIDS Crisis in the Early Twenty-First Century 195
Virginia Anderson
10 C horeographing HIV and AIDS in Contemporary Dance
in South Africa 215
Sarahleigh Castelyn
11 N ational Performances of Crying: Neoliberal
Sentimentality and the Cultural Commodification of HIV
and AIDS in Sweden 235
Dirk Gindt
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12 Prefigurative Performance in American and African AIDS
Activism 255
Ola Johansson
13 A wareness Community Theatre: A Local Response
to HIV and AIDS in Papua New Guinea 279
Jacqueline Kauli
Section 5 Artistic and Personal Reflections and Interventions 299
14 B lue Is, Blue Does: A Performance about Truvada
in Several Interactions 301
Ivan Bujan
15 A IDS Theatre in a ‘Post-AIDS’ Era: Reflections on My
Recent Plays 323
Sky Gilbert
16 B lood, Shame, Resilience and Hope: Indigenous Theatre
Maker Jacob Boehme’s Blood on the Dance Floor 343
Alyson Campbell and Jonathan Graffam
17 T he Lazarus Effect: El SIDA/AIDS and Belated
Mourning in Puerto Rican Theatre 367
Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez
Section 6 Coda 385
18 I nterview with Sarah Schulman: Corporate Culture, HIV
Criminalisation, Historicising AIDS and the Role
of Women in ACT UP 387
Alyson Campbell and Dirk Gindt
Index 405
