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. The original set and media environment for RUFF was conceived during a Split Britches residency hosted at QUT from June-August 2012, funded by Arts Queensland. After a preliminary season at Out North in Alaska RUFF premiered at Performance Space 122 2013 COIL festival, PS122 @ Dixon Place, New York in January 2013 and has since toured to the Chelsea Theatre in London and the Arches Festival in Glasgow and returned to New York at Lamama in January 2014. Co Written and Performed by Peggy Shaw, Co Written and Directed by Lois Weaver, Original Music Composed by Vivian Stoll, Choreography by Stormy Brandenburger, Set and Media Design by Matt Delbridge, Lighting Design by Lori E Said. NY Times Review 2013: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/theater/reviews/ruff-peggy-shaws-new-solo-show-at-performance-space-122.html?_r=1&

Item Type:	Published Creative Work
Keywords:	Queer Theatre, Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver, Stage Design, RUFF
Research Division:	Studies in Creative Arts and Writing
Research Group:	Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Research Field:	Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
Objective Division:	Cultural Understanding
Objective Group:	Arts and Leisure
Objective Field:	The Performing Arts (incl. Theatre and Dance)
Author:	Delbridge, MJ (Dr Matt Delbridge)
ID Code:	94625
Year Published:	2013
Deposited By:	Tasmanian College of the Arts
Deposited On:	2014-09-13
Last Modified:	2014-10-01
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