As part of a broader regulatory regime, YouTube helps to sustain a powerful model of sincerity, bodily stability, and self-control that has its roots in 19th- and early 20th-century theatre ideologies of amateur vs. professional. Some of YouTube's most popular videos are best understood through these conjoined rubrics, including Britney Spears fan Chris Crocker's “Leave Britney Alone!” video and actor Seth Green's parody of it.
"Tramping" is a performative style indebted to the techniques of camp and "trash," but is ultimately distinct from and irreducible to either practice. Like camp, tramping is a form of queer parody; and like self-conscious "trash," it complicates the idea of bad taste. Tramp performance articulates itself in the negotiation of three paradoxes: degraded elevation, constrained freedom, and deceitful truth-telling. This article analyzes the tramp sensibility as expressed in a few recent off-off-Broadway plays, most notably the comedy Showgirls. The Best Movie Ever Made. Ever! and suggests further areas of critical inquiry in the investigation of this complex aesthetic.
If the recent attention given to Pig Iron Theatre Company is any indication, 2010 may be the year of the pig. Although the group's founders met 20 years ago, it was their 2003 show James Joyce Is Dead and So Is Paris: The Lucia Joyce Cabaret and the 2010 production of Chekhov Lizardbrain that landed the Philadelphia group in the New York theatre scene. Pig Iron's abiding investment in adaptation's possibilities and continued commitment to physically intricate performance is now being passed on through their latest venture: a training program in physical theatre.
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