And God Forbid It Should Be So: Solo Performance as a Means of Interrogating Gender Identity Through Folklore Open Access

Abstract

This document contains the research chapter, rehearsal journal, script, recording, appendices, and annotated bibliography which act as supplementary materials to the performance of the solo piece And God Forbid It Should Be So, a play written and performed by Roz Sullivan-Lovett. The script is an exploration and attempted dismantling of the given gendered narrative of two fairy tales, “The Story of Mr. Fox” and “The Oxford Student.” The ambiguity at play in these stories as well as their nature as folktales remind us that they are fiction, and their fiction offers the reader to escape from either of them, a detachment from the narrative of women’s oppression. Therefore, And God Forbid It Should Be So is a project built around questioning the modern individual’s relationship to story and to our own identities in narrative, and more specifically in how bisexual gender-nonconforming women interact with internalized homophobia and misogyny in the construction of the self.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1. RESEARCH

           1. Introduction.…………………………………………………………………………….1

           2. The Fox and the Maiden……………………………....……………………………..2

                      2a. “The Robber Bridegroom” and “Bluebeard’s Wife”……………...…..4

                      2b. “The Story of Mister Fox”……………………………………………….….6

                      2c. “The Oxford Student”…………………………………………………..……8

           3. Feeding the Fox…………………………………………………………..……………11

           4. Leaving the Chamber……………………………………………………….……..…15

           5. So What’s To Be Done?………………………………………………………......….23

CHAPTER 2. ANNOTATED SCRIPT.…………………………………………………....……26

CHAPTER 3. REHEARSAL JOURNAL.……………………………………………….….……69

CHAPTER 4. SELECTION OF PERFORMANCE RECORDING……..……………....…..92

CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSION……...…………………………………………………….……...96

APPENDICES……...………………………………………………………….……..................107

           Appendix A……...…………………………………………………….…………...........107

           Appendix B……...………………………………………………….……………...........109

           Appendix C……...………………………………………………………….……...........115

           Appendix D……...……………………………………………………….………...........116

           Appendix E. ……...………………………………………….………….………….........117

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY...…………………………….……………….…...…………123

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School	Emory College
Department	Theater Studies
Degree	B.A.
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Women's Studies Folklore Theater
Keyword	Queer Theory
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Michael Evenden, DFA, Emory University
Committee Members	Sumita Chakraborty, PhD, Emory University Leslie Taylor, Emory University

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