`THAT WASN'T JUST A PARTY:' RECONSIDERING THE PLAYS OF ROBERT CHESLEY

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dc.contributor.advisorCarpenter, Faedra Cen_US
dc.contributor.authorGavrila, Rebecca Lynnen_US
dc.contributor.departmentTheatreen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-07T06:33:55Z
dc.date.available2015-02-07T06:33:55Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstract"That Wasn't Just A Party: Reconsidering The Plays of Robert Chesley" is a reclamation project that is placing Robert Chesley as a significant voice of Gay and Sexual Liberation in the Post-Stonewall gay theatrical canon. As the majority of his plays were both unproduced and unpublished, this project serves to introduce a contemporary, mainstream audience to the dramatic writings of Robert Chesley. Chesley is best known for writing the first full-length AIDS play to be produced in the United States, Night Sweats. Unlike his contemporaries, Larry Kramer and William Hoffman, Chesley never saw his work cross-over into the commercial mainstream in part because of his commitment to staging graphic gay sex scenes. Sadly, Robert Chesley would become a victim of the AIDS crisis, dying in 1990. The political and artistic ideologies represented by Chesley's works are currently under-acknowledged within the gay American theatre canon. By exploring Robert Chesley and the way his work addressed the ideals of Sexual Liberation I am contributing to the discourse of gay cultural criticism and gay theatre history. The current gay theatre canon lacks a figure that represented this political ideology within his theatrical texts.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2MC82
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16272
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheater historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGLBT studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPerforming artsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAIDSen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledChesleyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRoberten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGay Dramaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSexual Liberationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTheatreen_US
dc.title`THAT WASN'T JUST A PARTY:' RECONSIDERING THE PLAYS OF ROBERT CHESLEYen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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