When Elephants Are in Must: Peggy Shaw, Acts of Trans/fer, and the Present Future of Queer

It is early April in Amherst, Massachusetts, which means that the air is wet and crisp, and the dogwood trees are just about to burst with pink. It is almost eight p.m. The house is packed. Butches, dykes, femmes, faggots, dandies, tranzies, queens, queers.² And that is just my row. We’ve come to th...

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Zusammenfassung:It is early April in Amherst, Massachusetts, which means that the air is wet and crisp, and the dogwood trees are just about to burst with pink. It is almost eight p.m. The house is packed. Butches, dykes, femmes, faggots, dandies, tranzies, queens, queers.² And that is just my row. We’ve come to the Bartlett Hall Auditorium at the University of Massachusetts to see Peggy Shaw and Clod Ensemble’s production ofMust: The Inside Story, directed by Suzy Willson, which had been touring for three years prior to this 2011 production.³ The majority of spectators are college students⁴—including a