I'm so glad I came, but I can't wait to leave : an autoethnography of identity, gayness, and migration through theatre and performance

Rodriguez-Dorans, E

Abstract

Can a theatre play provide actors and audiences with a feeling of being at home? This article is an autoethnographic work that addresses how the author finds, in his work directing the research-based theatre play Heavier than Air devised by Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones, a self-identification with its queer characters. Describing it as a play that explicitly and implicitly welcomes people to be queer and to tell their stories, the author analyzes how the play also symbolizes the free movement of people and the quest for home.

Citation

Rodriguez-Dorans, E. (2018). I'm so glad I came, but I can't wait to leave : an autoethnography of identity, gayness, and migration through theatre and performance. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 7(4), 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2018.7.4.123

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Dec 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jul 13, 2021
• Journal: Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
• Electronic ISSN: 2333-9497
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 123-138
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2018.7.4.123
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2018.7.4.123
• Related Public URLs: https://online.ucpress.edu/dcqr
• Additional Information: Access Information : The Accepted Manuscript of this article can be freely read at: https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/im-so-glad-i-came-but-i-cant-wait-to-leave-an-autoethnography-of-; Funders : Monash University; Projects : Heavier than Air