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responsive to traces of specific female/lesbian desires. The central role of 'Albert Nobbs' within the then nascent field of feminist (and queer) performance criticism in the 1980s corroborates this contention. Simone Benmussa's 1977 stage adaptation The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs served as a key case study for the consolidation of critical
Jan 31, 2012 · If it doesn’t pack quite the intellectual and political punch of Benmussa’s play, at least Albert Nobbs lets us watch Close and McTeer in performances that should compel conversation about what it means to inhabit the strictures of gender.
Feb 2, 2012 · Hubert Page (Janet McTeer) tells the titular Albert Nobbs played by Glenn Close. But in a time where women possessed no status, no rights – when your only options were as a wife, servant or prostitute – how could you be yourself if you yearned for another life?
This essay models an approach to quare Irish female erotohistoriography through analyzing George Moore's 1918 novella ‘Albert Nobbs’ (later adapted as The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs by French fe...
- Charlotte McIvor
- 2013
Jun 4, 2008 · Gender as play: Simone Benmussa's the singular life of Albert Nobbs. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 21-24. Skip to Main Content
- Sue‐Ellen Case
- 1984
Mar 20, 2014 · (1992). Staging Women—Exploring Theory and Performance. An Analysis of The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs. Studies in Theatre Production: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-22.
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May 9, 2020 · In 1977, a play, La Vie Singulière d’Albert Nobbs, adapted from the Moore story, was written and directed by the French theatre director Simone Benmussa, and performed at the Théâtre d’Orsay, Paris.
