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Peggy Shaw

PEGGY SHAW

  
Nationality:    USA
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Founding member of Split Britches

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below is a list of Peggy Shaw's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         33 x 3         Anniversary Waltz         Belle Reprieve         Dress Suits to Hire         It's A Small House And We Lived In It Always         Lost Lounge, The         Menopausal Gentlemen         Miss America         Must - the Inside Story         My Chagrin         Ruff         What Tammy Needs to Know about Getting Old and Having Sex: The Concert Tour         You're Just Like My Father
33 x 3

Synopsis:
33 x 3, a Split Britches reunion with Peggy Shaw Lois Weaver and Deb Margolin. Split Britches will be occupying La MaMa, reminding us of our shared histories and our equal stakes in the future.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
La MaMa First Floor theatre
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     18 Apr 2012

Organisations:
Split BriTheatre Companyhes

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/peggyshaw

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Anniversary Waltz

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Lois Weaver

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Split BriTheatre Companyhes

1st Published:
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Music:
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Belle Reprieve

Synopsis:
Four characters from "A Streetcar Named Desire". Blanche and Stanley arrive in packing cases that are opened by StElla and Mitch. there is some verbal sparring, a few songs, a dance or two.

Notes:
written by Peggy Shaw, Bette Bourne, Paul Shaw, Lois Weaver

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Gay & Lesbian Plays Today published Heinemann (US), 1993   

Music:
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Genre:
full legth Comedy. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Dress Suits to Hire

Synopsis:
Two women live in a costume rental shop and dress up in the clothes

Notes:
Written with Holly Hughes And Lois Wever

1st Produced:
-     1987

Organisations:
Split Britches

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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It's A Small House And We Lived In It Always

Synopsis:
Two explorers lay claim to the same territory.

Notes:
Written by Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver

1st Produced:
Halliwall's, Buffalo     Nov 2000

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Lost Lounge, The

Synopsis:
the Lost Lounge is a tribute to the people who hold out and to the places people gather to sift through what is lost and found when delicate memory is confronted with hard progress. It is a dark shadowy lounge populated by some uniquely queer yet recognizably universal characters whose moods swing between pessimism for the future and optimism of the past. All set to the beat of some different drums.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Peggy Shaw And Lois Weaver

1st Produced:
Dixon Place, NY, USA >>>     09 Dec 2009

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Menopausal Gentlemen

Menopausal Gentlemen
A butch lesbian and the menopause - she is 56 and looks like a 36 year old man

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Genre:
Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Miss America

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written And performed by Peggy Shaw And Lois Weaver. Miss America has movement by Stormy Brandenberger, original music And sound design by Vivian Stoll, lighting design by Jan Bell And photographs by Lori E. Seid

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Split Britches

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Must - the Inside Story

Must - the Inside Story
This is part of the Under the Radar Festival. In collaboration with the UK-based Clod Ensemble, New York performance artist Peggy Shaw takes the audience on a journey across the landscape of her own body. Renowned for her own gender-bending autobiographical work, she recounts her extraordinary experiences of the medical profession from her current perspective as a 65-year-old lesbian grandmother. Must weaves together the stories of a lifetime-giving birth on the way to Woodstock, her mother's electric shock treatment in 1950s America, the loss of a loved one-with projected microscopic images and live musicians performing a powerful score.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Clod Ensemble with Peggy Shaw

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Fuel

1st Published:
Contained in: "Menopausal Gentleman" published by Michigan University Press 2011   

Music:
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Genre:
Piece. - - Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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My Chagrin

My Chagrin
The love for a biracial grandson

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Menopausal Gentleman" published by Michigan University Press 2011   

Music:
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Genre:
Lesbian monologue play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Ruff

Synopsis:
Peggy Shaw has always had a host of crooners, lounge singers, movie stars, rock and roll bands, and eccentric family members living inside her. Ruff is a tribute to those who have kept Shaw company over the last 68 years, a lament for the absence of those who disappeared into the dark holes left behind by her recent stroke, and a celebration that her brain is able to fill the blank green screens with new insight.

Notes:
written by Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver. Commissioned by PS122 & Out North Contemporary Art House, co-presented with Dixon Place. Part of COIL 13

1st Produced:
Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002     01 Nov 2013

Organisations:
Split Britches

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
60 min piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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What Tammy Needs to Know about Getting Old and Having Sex: The Concert Tour

Synopsis:
A special concert performance to launch Tammy WhyNot's debut album. The Tammy in question is former famous country and western singer turned performance artist Tammy WhyNot. She is also the creation of artist, writer, director, scholar and activist Lois Weaver. Tammy will be giving a special performance to launch her musical exploration into aging, desire, pleasure and intimacy. In preparation for the tour, Tammy investigates her subject using a series of workshops and public interventions with LGBT elders in NYC in order to generate local stories and recruit participants for the show. The show will also feature special guest appearances by established artists such as Peggy Shaw, Bette Bourne, Precious Pearl and many more. . .plus music videos created in the workshops in London Zagreb and New York! The concert will feature tracks from Tammy's debut album.

Notes:
Written by: Lois Weaver in collaboration with Peggy Shaw

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
performance art

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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You're Just Like My Father

You're Just Like My Father
A woman brings up her daughter as a boy

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Menopausal Gentleman" published by Michigan University Press 2011   

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Solo Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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