Podcast appearances and mentions of peggy shaw

This show is made possible by you!  To become a sustaining member go to LauraFlanders.org/donate  Thank you for your continued support!Holly Hughes and Esther Newton are radical in their fields and a couple for more than 30 years. In this Pride special, they talk with Laura about the anti-LGBTQ, anti-feminist backlash we're seeing today and their own experiences making ground-breaking work and surviving unfriendly times thanks to their queer kinship ties. Hughes is a writer and performer probably best known for being one of the artists targeted by the religious right in the culture wars of the 1990s. Esther Newton is a pioneering anthropologist and the subject of the recent documentary film ESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY, which explores her introduction to gay life in the 1950s and its impact on her field and her life's work. Hughes and Newton are cultural icons, dog agility enthusiasts and without a doubt makers of history. What can this long-lived lesbian couple teach us about community survival? Tune in to find out why love, community and kinship are essential for all of our survival, plus a commentary from Laura.“Some of the arguments that [the Republican Party] used 30 years ago, that we were supposedly attacking children and we were a cabal of child pornographers and pedophiles . . . They haven't really bothered to update it. They're concerned about a stigmatized group that begins to have the means to talk to a larger community.” - Holly Hughes“Traditionally, primary ties were supposed to be ‘blood family.' Gay people have built structures outside of that . . . There's always going to be gay and trans people because as an anthropologist, I'm aware that we're found all over the world in many, many cultures. It's not that they'll be able to stamp out the phenomenon, but they can do a lot of damage . . . We have to maintain those ties. This is critical.” - Esther NewtonGuests:Holly Hughes: Performer & Writer; Professor, University of MichiganEsther Newton: Professor of Anthropology, Founder & Leading Scholar LGBTQ Studies; Author, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America & My Butch Career: A Memoir Full Show Notes are located HERE.  They include related episodes, articles, and more to dive deeper.Music In the Middle:   “Mirage” by WhatItDo Archive Group from their album ‘Palace of a Thousand Sounds' released on Record Kicks. 

Mentioned spontaneously by two prior guests in this very podcast series, the influential and pioneering performance artist and professor Lois Weaver needs no introduction. Yet Oriana provides a very lengthy one at the start of this interview with Weaver in which they discuss her alter ego, Tammy Whynot, who decided to stop being a country and western singer in order to start being a lesbian performance artist. In Weaver's own words, Tammy's “sense of wonder and her ability to fail gloriously and without shame were her superpowers. Tammy's wisdom of ‘why not?' gave the definition she had been searching for: resistant femme = a highly competent woman who just looks like she needs help.” Having performed the role of resistant femme (among others) for decades now, Weaver shares her thoughts on femininity; falling in love (with your work); the challenges of autobiographical performance; Split Britches' most recent piece Last Gasp; public engagement; orgasms into later life; and finally retiring on the topic of retirement. Dr Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.Dr Lois Weaver is the director and co-founder (with long-time collaborator Peggy Shaw) of the company Split Britches, which among many accolades, won the Innovative Theatre Awards (USA) Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award in 2017. So many awards! In 2014 she was a Guggenheim fellow in 2014 and shortly thereafter a Wellcome Trust Engaging Science Fellow. She got the WOW Women in Creative Industries ‘Fighting the Good Fight' award in 2018. And, the honours keep rolling in... Most recently in 2021 Split Britches' theatre-piece-cum-zoom-film Last Gasp has been nominated for the Drama League award for Outstanding Digital Production. Not even a pandemic can stop this woman from being creative. Weaver is also a professor of contemporary performance at Queen Mary University of London. She also pioneered a form of public engagement called the long table. Credits:Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana FoxPost-production mixing by Stacey HarveyThemesong written and performed by Paulette HumanbeingSpecial thanks to Charlotte Troy, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses.Would you like to see your name in the above credits list? In a couple of short steps, you can make that happen by supporting this podcast via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/orianafox

The multi-talented Dionne McClain-Freeney is a musical theatre septuple threat - pianist, composer, lyricist, choral and musical director, arranger, singer and teaching artist. Join Meghan & Holly as they sit down with Dionne to discuss her many roles in the theater world, musical theater as a medium rather than a genre, the importance of “working it out” in a collaboration, genre-fluidity, love song lyrics that make her swoon, uplifting the next generation of musical theater creators, redefining success in theater, faith and spirituality as a queer person, the beauty in the mundane lives of queers, and our shared enduring love of Anybodys. Meghan and Holly also discuss the LAST GASP WFH, written and performed by Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver of Split Britches and presented by La Mama and shout out Rock Steady farm. Dionne McClain-Freeney:  Instagram Twitter Maestra Music Profile Into the World - from THIS ONE GIRL’S STORY  Last Gasp WFH - Split Britches Through May 31, 2021 Streaming  Action of the Ep Rock Steady Farm - Web Site Black Farmers United - Web Site Queer Culture Rec: Soul Summit- Instagram Queer Gives: Mizz June The Audre Lorde Project Thesis on Joan: Follow Thesis on Joan on Instagram & Twitter  Leave us a voicemail at (845) 445-9251‬ Email us at thesisonjoan at gmail dot com A full transcript of this episode is available here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josie Long gazes into a mirror as she presents short documentaries and sonic adventures on reflections and doubles. A woman wrestles with an unsettling shadow, the double act Split Britches explore life as partners and performers and a work of sound art offers advice on becoming more becoming... Becoming More Becoming Originally made for the Third Coast International Audio Festival ShortDocs competition Produced by Sarah Boothroyd Split Britches Feat. Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver Produced by Alia Cassam The Detonator Originally made for CBC's Love Me Produced by Sarah Geis, Mira Burt-Wintonick, Cristal Duhaime and 'Kate' Sound by Mira Burt-Wintonick Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

As we saw a few episodes back, in 1965 Peggy Shaw turned in a script called Fashions in Crime, based on the 1948 comics story of the same name, and beset by script elements that would work in a comic but would be tough to film. Shaw's script was apparently handed to writer Stephen Kandel to rework. The resulting 1966 work, The Cat's Tale, solves many of the problems of Shaw's script, in part by totally abandoning it halfway through. Still, it ultimately wasn't used. In this episode, Tim & Paul compare the two scripts & consider whether Kandel's script also had fatal flaws. PLUS: the Ettore Cenci version of Hefti's theme, a correction regarding 8 mm film, a look back on a Batman-branded building that once existed in the Tokyo suburbs as a tie-in to the Tim Burton/Michael Keaton films, another nail in the coffin of the 4th-season myth, and your mail! "The Cat's Tale," unfilmed script by Stephen Kandel, PDF "The Silent Film Capers" by Dick Carr: First draft Second draft Polished version Thread on '66 Batman Message Board Photos of the Batman Building in Hachioji, Tokyo, taken September 22, 1989 by Tim Young. Click to enlarge!   The top of the Batman Building is in the very center of this photo!   This was the grand opening -- note the bouquets out front. Floor guide     That other "It's Getting Harder" song from 1967 (from the film To Sir With Love). Nope, no double-entendre here!   This episode's version of Hefti's theme:

  In late in 1965, writer Peggy Shaw (a.k.a. Peggy O'Shea) submitted a Batman script called Fashions in Crime. It was based on a story of the same title from Batman 47 (1948), but naturally much expanded, and it shows signs that Shaw must have been reading Lorenzo Semple Jr.'s early Batman scripts (e.g. Hi Diddle Riddle and The Joker Goes to School). While parts of the script fit the tone of Batman '66, others would have been better suited to a Mickey Spillane novel. In this episode, Tim and Paul go through the script, and reveal a surprise ending — not to the story contained in the script, but to the story of the script itself! PLUS: The Washington Dead Cats version of the theme, and your mail! "Fashions in Crime", unfilmed script by Peggy Shaw, PDF "Fashions in Crime" thread on the '66 Batman message board "The Cat's Tale," unfilmed script by Stephen Kandel, PDF "The Cat's Tale," thread on the '66 Batman message board     Below, a couple of pages from the 1948 "Fashions in Crime" from Batman 47  

Louie, The Lilac is a surprising episode for how un-Uncle Milty-like Milton Berle's performance is. It's also uneven, with some nice camera shots, but also many poorly-presented plot points — and some that aren't presented at all! We do get a few scenes of Gotham City's flower children — and just what is the show's take on that movement? How much social commentary might there be hiding among the lilacs? In this episode we compare this season three Batman episode to its ancestor, Dwight Taylor's script Please Omit Tomatoes, which has the outlines of the same death trap as the filmed episode, but nothing else in common with it. ALSO: We confess our Bat-sins, for we have blasphemed Batman '66! What was the appeal of the '66 show to fans of Marvel Comics? Plus, the Orchester Friedel Berlipp version of the theme, and your mail! "Louie the Lilac" draft script (entitled "Please Omit Tomatoes") PDF script "Please Omit Tomatoes" thread on the '66 Batman message board "Fashions in Crime", unfilmed script by Peggy Shaw, PDF "Fashions in Crime" thread on the '66 Batman message board   The February 19, 1966 Bob Hope special has been removed from YouTube! If you find another posting of it, please let us know and we'll link to it from here!    

Iconic lesbian feminist performance company Split Britches’ Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver talk with Jen Harvie about the forty years they’ve worked with – and loved – each other. We discuss how they met, how they’ve sustained collaboration and communication, and how changes in cultural attitudes to sexuality and gender affect Retro(per)spective, the joyous cocktail of greatest-hits scenes from past work they are touring. We consider the importance of performing with love and care, and when to shout and when to whisper. https://splitbritches.wordpress.com/

Amy and Lucio are on an Easter Cake high! Excitement as we learn that Princess Di visited our favourite local gay bar and we talk to performance legend Peggy Shaw of Spilt Britches about her new show and surviving a stroke. Plus all the GayStarNews.

This is the fourth edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download.This month's podcast is by the performance artist Peggy Shaw, and is designed to be heard at dawn, at home, after a sleepless night