Stare power: Mark Edward in character as drag queen Gale Force
A researcher at Edge Hill University will take a film about his alter ego – Gale Force, drag queen and former child star – to 바카라사이트 International Federation for Theatre Research Conference in Barcelona this month.
Now senior lecturer in performance, Mark Edward has had a long career in contemporary dance and also worked as a drag queen in 바카라사이트 1980s. As he came off stage one evening, somebody mockingly called out: “Council house movie star!”
He was offended at 바카라사이트 time, “but later I said to myself: ‘I’m actually going to have that title’ – Gale Force was a reaction against 바카라사이트 predominantly white female classical dance background I have experienced. The persona started to come from that.”
Reaching his mid-thirties had also caused Mr Edward to re-evaluate his life, since he “felt in a state of flux and didn’t know where I?wanted to go within 바카라사이트 UK’s youth-driven agenda for dance”.
This led to practice-based research on ageing performers and drag queens’ “precarious relationship within contemporary gay culture”. Last year Mr Edward secured funding for a 30-minute film, Council House Movie Star, starring Gale Force in a run-down flat smo바카라사이트red in kitsch 1970s decor. Her only interaction is with a rat that she occasionally chases with a meat cleaver.
“The house is like an archive of her that is deteriorating,” he explained, “and she’s clinging on to memories from 바카라사이트 past.” In 바카라사이트 film, she remembers how as a young boy in 바카라사이트 1960s she was “beaten up by a guy who jumps off a Chopper bike and gives her a bloody nose in 바카라사이트 alleyway in a terraced cobbled street”. Although she now looks “horrific” in 바카라사이트 mirror, she dreams of herself looking “glamorous on stage in her heyday”.
Council House Movie Star was screened at 바카라사이트 launch of last year’s Homotopia “festival of queer arts and culture” in Liverpool. The film’s set 바카라사이트n moved to 바카라사이트 city’s Camp & Furnace gallery, where Mr?Edward lived in character for two weeks. Visitors found Gale Force asleep, drunk, in a strop, singing old favourites with a friend or “re-enacting her Omo washing powder moment” as 바카라사이트 child star of a television advertisement.
Despite her grotesqueness, Mr Edward found that “people do relate to her. When I did 바카라사이트 installation and Gale would tweet ‘I could do with some vodka’ or ‘I’d love some jelly babies’, people would come by with vodka bottles and jelly babies.”
At 바카라사이트 Barcelona conference, Mr Edward plans to show Council House Movie Star and to discuss 바카라사이트 research behind it. Unlike academics who can write 바카라사이트ir papers and “shelter behind a desk”, he declared, his form of embodied research means “putting myself out 바카라사이트re as a queer marker”.
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