Ready, Aye Ready
Work
Ready, Aye Ready (A Standing Cock Has No Conscience)
"A performance of Robert Burns' bawdy poetry. Diane Torr performs in male drag, acting the character of Hamish McAllister, a made-up persona whose presence fulfills the poetry's masculine perspective makes the sexual inequities clear without stamping out the earthy sexuality of the material.";"The work is derived mainly from The Merry Muses of Caledonia -- a collection of bawdy folksongs put together by the 18th century Scottish poet, Robert Burns, -- some of which are unexpurgated versions of popular poems he has written. This collection was never published in his lifetime, and as it was published in 1959, is not easy to find in second hand bookshops! Robert Burns' undisguised enjoyment of bawdry is not openly shared by present-day Scots, and his work continues to be censored 200 years after the fact."
"18th century Scottish poet Robert Burns is refurbished in a cross-dressers' evening of bawdy dance, bawdy song, bawdy farm animals, bawdy poetry, and bawdy bagpipes."
press release 1992;program 1992 / promotional card 1992
"18th century Scottish poet Robert Burns is refurbished in a cross-dressers' evening of bawdy dance, bawdy song, bawdy farm animals, bawdy poetry, and bawdy bagpipes."
press release 1992;program 1992 / promotional card 1992
circa 1991
English
WORK.1991.0056
Loading...