Split Britches Archive 1978-2000.

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Split Britches Archive 1978-2000.

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Split Britches is a lesbian theater troupe founded in 1980 by Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, and Deb Margolin. This collection contains scripts, press materials and clippings, notes, and photography spanning the troupe's existence. This collection is comprised of materials created and compiled by the members of the Split Britches in the course of their work as artists, playwrights, and performers. Materials include correspondence, notes, receipts, photographs, floorplans, and ephemera generated both by individual members of the group and by the group as a whole. Items in the collection range from 1978-2000, with the bulk from 1982-1992.The collection is organized into four series:Series I: Scripts and Notes--consists of ...

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Shaw, Peggy.

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Weaver, Lois

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Split Britches

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Split Britches was formed in 1980 by Deb Margolin, Peggy Shaw, and Lois Weaver. The award-winning troupe has written, produced, and performed multiple plays: some which involve all members of the troupe and some works created in collaboration with other groups like Bloolips and Gay Sweatshop. Split Britches performances incorporate riffs on popular culture with music and examinations of gendered/gay/lesbian/queer culture and relationships. Still active today, members of the group tour and perfor...

Margolin, Deb.

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