Osoby. Penny Arcade i nowojorska scena queerowa
People: Penny Arcade and the New York Queer Scene

Summary/Abstract: Joanna Krakowska takes a look at the history of American queer performance in terms of its political significance and formal transformations. The author perceives continuity in the development of the theater of sexual minorities, running from the New York underground theaters of the 1960s, for whom the most important means of communication was the word, and the most important strategy was to address shocking social themes and to give voice to their silenced protagonists. She also questions the current political potential of queer theater, when pop culture, bourgeois values, and entertaining professionalism are stripping the non-heterosexual identity of all its oddity on stage.

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