Maryville by Joelle Taylor
Joelle Taylor brings the Scottish Premiere of the staged reading of Maryville, her new poetry collection to Push the Boat Out: a searing, poetic excavation of fifty years of lesbian counterculture.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9TJ
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Join Joelle Taylor for the Scottish Premiere of the staged reading of Maryville, her new poetry collection: a searing, poetic excavation of fifty years of lesbian counterculture.
Following-on from her T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poetry collection C+nto & Othered Poems, Joelle Taylor’s Maryville charts the lives of four butch lesbians through five decades of underground queer history: tracing the culture, clubs and resistance that shaped their world. With a vividly sketched cast of characters, the Maryville butch bar becomes a lens through which to consider the underground histories of queer London. The violence and pain of oppression and the beauty and intimacy of community are rendered in awe-inspiring high definition.
The performance is directed by acclaimed writer and director Neil Bartlett, with visuals from artist and filmmaker Sweatmother. Maryville explores the scars, hopes and potentialities of dyke identity and the queer underground.
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