Marlis Schweitzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marlis Schweitzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marlis |
| FAMILY NAME | Schweitzer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWEITZER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3181-1098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Princess Conspiracies
This essay analyzes how the proliferation of negative imagery in the 1760s gave rise to conspiracy theories that reduced Augusta, the Dowager Princess of Wales to a stock character in a political drama of corruption, deploying techniques that prevail today, as seen most recently in the conspiracy theories that swirled around the current Princess of Wales. Though focusing primarily on political prints, it points to the co-constitutive development …
Introduction
Consider the following casting calls: What do they reveal about contemporary casting practices? What stereotypes are upheld or dispelled? Which calls invite artists to present their full selves? Which do not? #1 Character Descriptions: We are committed to authentically casting equity-seeking characters, including BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, d/Deaf, and/or disabled characters. The character descriptions ... represent our understanding of each character's ide…
Reading the TRC Summary Report Together
Keywords: Truth and Reconciliation, TRC Report, durational reading, collective reading, temporality, attention, responsibility
A Round Table Conversation on the State of Hiring and Labour in Theatre and Performance Studies in Canada
This article summarizes a round table on the state of hiring and labour in the field that was conducted at the 2021 Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) conference. Prompted by the results of a survey conducted by CATR’s Emerging Scholars Task Force, the round table addresses the difficult job prospects that emerging scholars in theatre and performance studies face, and opportunities that lie beyond the field and the academy. The roun…
Just One of the Boys
Gillian M. Rodger's new book is a welcome addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century performance culture and the history of gender and sexuality more broadly. As with her previous study, Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima (2010), Rodger employs cultural materialist methods to explore the dynamics of U.S. variety theater. Whereas her earlier work considered a range of performance styles, Rodger focuses here on a single genre, tracing the caree…
Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England
Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England." Childhood in the Past, 11(1), pp. 63–64
The Black Crook
Reviewed by: The Black Crook: an Original, Magical and Spectacular Musical Drama by Charles M. Barras Roberta Barker and Marlis Schweitzer The Black Crook: an Original, Magical and Spectacular Musical Drama. Adapted from the original 1866 musical by Charles M. Barras. Conceived and directed by Joshua William Gelb. Abrons Arts Center, New York City. October 1, 2016. Since its debut over 150 years ago, The Black Crook has played an equivocal role i…
Casting Clara Fisher
This essay examines the convergence of phrenology and nineteenth-century British theatre by tracing the “stage life” of a life cast made by Scottish phrenologist George Combe from the head of the child actress Clara Fisher. It argues that by first casting Fisher’s head, and then widely disseminating his report on that cast through publications and lectures, Combe staked a claim to the young actress, casting her, both literally and figuratively, a…
The Prettiest Girl on Stage Is a Man
Historians of U.S. vaudeville, musical comedy, and other early twentieth-century popular entertainment have offered lively accounts of performers who negotiated, undermined, and exploited stereotypes of gender, race, class, and sexuality in their onstage and offstage appearances. Yet surprisingly few scholars have examined the complex entanglements of race and gender in such acts. Kathleen B. Casey skillfully addresses this oversight, foregroundi…
Transatlantic Broadway
"Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine. Inspired by post-humanist scholarship, this book pays heed to the non-human entities and the backgrounded or disappeared human laborers who participat…
Networking the Waves
In The Great Wet Way, a humorous account of transatlantic travel, American theatre critic Alan Dale represents ocean liners as sites of transformation, frivolity, and performance. In the passage above, he ponders the peculiar metamorphosis that overtakes him whenever he crosses the Atlantic. Cut off from the hustling world of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, he loses his “real self,” becoming instead an autograph-hunting, bridge-playing, opera-glassing…
Performing Objects and Theatrical Things
In the Window at Disney
The princess makeover is a signature Disney performance that articulates the interplay between the production of a desiring subject and the commodification of experience. It is a transformation that demands affective labor from consumers on behalf of one of the world’s preeminent brands
Networking the Waves
In The Great Wet Way, a humorous account of transatlantic travel, American theatre critic Alan Dale represents ocean liners as sites of transformation, frivolity, and performance. In the passage above, he ponders the peculiar metamorphosis that overtakes him whenever he crosses the Atlantic. Cut off from the hustling world of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, he loses his “real self,” becoming instead an autograph-hunting, bridge-playing, opera-glassing…
Changed for Good
Stacy Wolf’s Changed for Good is a carefully researched, elegantly written, and methodologically innovative feminist analysis of Broadway musicals from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. Where Wolf’s previous monograph, A Problem like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (2002), focused specifically on the careers and performances of four celebrated Broadway stars from the 1950s and early 1960s, Changed for Good emphasize…
Brian Jungen's Verfremdungseffekt
Canadian artist Brian Jungen has achieved international fame for taking mass-produced goods—plastic chairs, gas cans, basketball sneakers—and transforming them into intricately wrought pieces that resemble First Nations art objects. Displayed in the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, Jungen's pieces produced a Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt
Patriotic Acts of Consumption
Between December 1917 and May 1918, one of the leading acts on the Keith vaudeville circuit was Fleurette's Dream at Peronne , a fashion show featuring a dozen mannequins and a million dollars in clothing. Staged by British couturier Lucile (Lady Duff Gordon), the self-proclaimed inventor of the modern fashion show, the twenty-eight minute "playlet" was a celebration of fashion's excesses and a clever promotional vehicle for the designer's gowns.…
Sex Acts
Sex Acts:Reading the History of Female Sexuality through Art and Drama Marlis Schweitzer (bio) Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture. By Maria Elena Buszek. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. 444 pages, 94 illustrations. $89.95 (cloth). $24.95 (paperback). Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920. By Katie N. Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 265 pages, 11 illustrations. $85.00 (cloth). In 1913…
Casting Clara Fisher
This essay examines the convergence of phrenology and nineteenth-century British theatre by tracing the “stage life” of a life cast made by Scottish phrenologist George Combe from the head of the child actress Clara Fisher. It argues that by first casting Fisher’s head, and then widely disseminating his report on that cast through publications and lectures, Combe staked a claim to the young actress, casting her, both literally and figuratively, a…
Just One of the Boys
Gillian M. Rodger's new book is a welcome addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century performance culture and the history of gender and sexuality more broadly. As with her previous study, Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima (2010), Rodger employs cultural materialist methods to explore the dynamics of U.S. variety theater. Whereas her earlier work considered a range of performance styles, Rodger focuses here on a single genre, tracing the caree…
Networking the Waves
In The Great Wet Way, a humorous account of transatlantic travel, American theatre critic Alan Dale represents ocean liners as sites of transformation, frivolity, and performance. In the passage above, he ponders the peculiar metamorphosis that overtakes him whenever he crosses the Atlantic. Cut off from the hustling world of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, he loses his “real self,” becoming instead an autograph-hunting, bridge-playing, opera-glassing…
Changed for Good
Stacy Wolf’s Changed for Good is a carefully researched, elegantly written, and methodologically innovative feminist analysis of Broadway musicals from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. Where Wolf’s previous monograph, A Problem like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (2002), focused specifically on the careers and performances of four celebrated Broadway stars from the 1950s and early 1960s, Changed for Good emphasize…
Sex Acts
Sex Acts:Reading the History of Female Sexuality through Art and Drama Marlis Schweitzer (bio) Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture. By Maria Elena Buszek. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. 444 pages, 94 illustrations. $89.95 (cloth). $24.95 (paperback). Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920. By Katie N. Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 265 pages, 11 illustrations. $85.00 (cloth). In 1913…
Patriotic Acts of Consumption
Between December 1917 and May 1918, one of the leading acts on the Keith vaudeville circuit was Fleurette's Dream at Peronne , a fashion show featuring a dozen mannequins and a million dollars in clothing. Staged by British couturier Lucile (Lady Duff Gordon), the self-proclaimed inventor of the modern fashion show, the twenty-eight minute "playlet" was a celebration of fashion's excesses and a clever promotional vehicle for the designer's gowns.…
Brian Jungen's Verfremdungseffekt
Canadian artist Brian Jungen has achieved international fame for taking mass-produced goods—plastic chairs, gas cans, basketball sneakers—and transforming them into intricately wrought pieces that resemble First Nations art objects. Displayed in the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, Jungen's pieces produced a Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt
Networking the Waves
In The Great Wet Way, a humorous account of transatlantic travel, American theatre critic Alan Dale represents ocean liners as sites of transformation, frivolity, and performance. In the passage above, he ponders the peculiar metamorphosis that overtakes him whenever he crosses the Atlantic. Cut off from the hustling world of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, he loses his “real self,” becoming instead an autograph-hunting, bridge-playing, opera-glassing…
Changed for Good
Stacy Wolf’s Changed for Good is a carefully researched, elegantly written, and methodologically innovative feminist analysis of Broadway musicals from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. Where Wolf’s previous monograph, A Problem like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (2002), focused specifically on the careers and performances of four celebrated Broadway stars from the 1950s and early 1960s, Changed for Good emphasize…
Performing Objects and Theatrical Things
In the Window at Disney
The princess makeover is a signature Disney performance that articulates the interplay between the production of a desiring subject and the commodification of experience. It is a transformation that demands affective labor from consumers on behalf of one of the world’s preeminent brands
Transatlantic Broadway
"Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine. Inspired by post-humanist scholarship, this book pays heed to the non-human entities and the backgrounded or disappeared human laborers who participat…
Networking the Waves
In The Great Wet Way, a humorous account of transatlantic travel, American theatre critic Alan Dale represents ocean liners as sites of transformation, frivolity, and performance. In the passage above, he ponders the peculiar metamorphosis that overtakes him whenever he crosses the Atlantic. Cut off from the hustling world of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, he loses his “real self,” becoming instead an autograph-hunting, bridge-playing, opera-glassing…
Casting Clara Fisher
This essay examines the convergence of phrenology and nineteenth-century British theatre by tracing the “stage life” of a life cast made by Scottish phrenologist George Combe from the head of the child actress Clara Fisher. It argues that by first casting Fisher’s head, and then widely disseminating his report on that cast through publications and lectures, Combe staked a claim to the young actress, casting her, both literally and figuratively, a…
The Prettiest Girl on Stage Is a Man
Historians of U.S. vaudeville, musical comedy, and other early twentieth-century popular entertainment have offered lively accounts of performers who negotiated, undermined, and exploited stereotypes of gender, race, class, and sexuality in their onstage and offstage appearances. Yet surprisingly few scholars have examined the complex entanglements of race and gender in such acts. Kathleen B. Casey skillfully addresses this oversight, foregroundi…
The Black Crook
Reviewed by: The Black Crook: an Original, Magical and Spectacular Musical Drama by Charles M. Barras Roberta Barker and Marlis Schweitzer The Black Crook: an Original, Magical and Spectacular Musical Drama. Adapted from the original 1866 musical by Charles M. Barras. Conceived and directed by Joshua William Gelb. Abrons Arts Center, New York City. October 1, 2016. Since its debut over 150 years ago, The Black Crook has played an equivocal role i…
Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England
Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England." Childhood in the Past, 11(1), pp. 63–64
Just One of the Boys
Gillian M. Rodger's new book is a welcome addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century performance culture and the history of gender and sexuality more broadly. As with her previous study, Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima (2010), Rodger employs cultural materialist methods to explore the dynamics of U.S. variety theater. Whereas her earlier work considered a range of performance styles, Rodger focuses here on a single genre, tracing the caree…
A Round Table Conversation on the State of Hiring and Labour in Theatre and Performance Studies in Canada
This article summarizes a round table on the state of hiring and labour in the field that was conducted at the 2021 Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) conference. Prompted by the results of a survey conducted by CATR’s Emerging Scholars Task Force, the round table addresses the difficult job prospects that emerging scholars in theatre and performance studies face, and opportunities that lie beyond the field and the academy. The roun…
Introduction
Consider the following casting calls: What do they reveal about contemporary casting practices? What stereotypes are upheld or dispelled? Which calls invite artists to present their full selves? Which do not? #1 Character Descriptions: We are committed to authentically casting equity-seeking characters, including BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, d/Deaf, and/or disabled characters. The character descriptions ... represent our understanding of each character's ide…
Reading the TRC Summary Report Together
Keywords: Truth and Reconciliation, TRC Report, durational reading, collective reading, temporality, attention, responsibility
The Princess Conspiracies
This essay analyzes how the proliferation of negative imagery in the 1760s gave rise to conspiracy theories that reduced Augusta, the Dowager Princess of Wales to a stock character in a political drama of corruption, deploying techniques that prevail today, as seen most recently in the conspiracy theories that swirled around the current Princess of Wales. Though focusing primarily on political prints, it points to the co-constitutive development …
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