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Welcome
Split Britches was founded 32 years ago by Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver, and Deb Margolin in New York City. Since 1980 we have transformed the landscape of queer performance with our vaudevillian satirical gender-bending performance. Split Britches creates new forms by exploiting old conventions. It borrows from classical texts and popular myths, but its true sources are the details of everyday life. The work is personal, bordering on the private. It relies on moments rather than plot, relationships rather than story. It is about a community of outsiders, queers, eccentrics – feminist because it encourages the imaginative potential in everyone, and lesbian because it takes the presence of a lesbian on stage as a given.
Hello,
I’m looking for a copy of the solo performance by Peggy Shaw called- To My Chagrin. Do you have or would I be able to purchase this?
Thanks,
Amber
Hi Amber,
You can find Peggy Shaw’s “To My Chagrin” in the recently published text A Menopausal Gentleman The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw. The book is not for sale on the Split Britches website yet as we are still in the process of setting up the e-shop. However, you can purchase the collection of plays at a local book store or check to see if your local library has a copy of the text.
Helaine