Lois Weaver's guest appearances

Lois Weaver

Episode 1 :: Sh!t Theatre

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Tim Etchells

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Season Butler

OwlTail

Mentioned spontaneously by two prior guests in this very podcast series, the influential and pioneering performance artist and professor Lois Weaver needs no introduction. Yet Oriana provides a very lengthy one at the start of this interview with Weaver in which they discuss her alter ego, Tammy Whynot, who decided to stop being a country and western singer in order to start being a lesbian performance artist. In Weaver’s own words, Tammy’s “sense of wonder and her ability to fail gloriously and without shame were her superpowers. Tammy’s wisdom of ‘why not?’ gave the definition she had been searching for: resistant femme = a highly competent woman who just looks like she needs help.” Having performed the role of resistant femme (among others) for decades now, Weaver shares her thoughts on femininity; falling in love (with your work); the challenges of autobiographical performance; Split Britches’ most recent piece Last Gasp; public engagement; orgasms into later life; and finally retiring on the topic of retirement. Dr Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.Dr Lois Weaver is the director and co-founder (with long-time collaborator Peggy Shaw) of the company Split Britches, which among many accolades, won the Innovative Theatre Awards (USA) Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award in 2017. So many awards! In 2014 she was a Guggenheim fellow in 2014 and shortly thereafter a Wellcome Trust Engaging Science Fellow. She got the WOW Women in Creative Industries ‘Fighting the Good Fight’ award in 2018. And, the honours keep rolling in... Most recently in 2021 Split Britches’ theatre-piece-cum-zoom-film Last Gasp has been nominated for the Drama League award for Outstanding Digital Production. Not even a pandemic can stop this woman from being creative. Weaver is also a professor of contemporary performance at Queen Mary University of London. She also pioneered a form of public engagement called the long table. Credits:Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana FoxPost-production mixing by Stacey HarveyThemesong written and performed by Paulette HumanbeingSpecial thanks to Charlotte Troy, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses.Would you like to see your name in the above credits list? In a couple of short steps, you can make that happen by supporting this podcast via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/orianafox

Mentioned spontaneously by two prior guests in this very podcast series, the influential and pioneering performance artist and professor Lois Weaver needs no introduction. Yet Oriana provides a very lengthy one at the start of this interview with Weaver in which they discuss her alter ego, Tammy Whynot, who decided to stop being a country and western singer in order to start being a lesbian performance artist. In Weaver’s own words, Tammy’s “sense of wonder and her ability to fail gloriously and without shame were her superpowers. Tammy’s wisdom of ‘why not?’ gave the definition she had been searching for: resistant femme = a highly competent woman who just looks like she needs help.” Having performed the role of resistant femme (among others) for decades now, Weaver shares her thoughts on femininity; falling in love (with your work); the challenges of autobiographical performance; Split Britches’ most recent piece Last Gasp; public engagement; orgasms into later life; and finally retiring on the topic of retirement. Dr <a href="http://orianafox.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Oriana Fox</a> is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show. Dr <a href="http://www.split-britches.com/lois/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lois Weaver</a> is the director and co-founder (with long-time collaborator Peggy Shaw) of the company Split Britches, which among many accolades, won the Innovative Theatre Awards (USA) Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award in 2017. So many awards! In 2014 she was a Guggenheim fellow in 2014 and shortly thereafter a Wellcome Trust Engaging Science Fellow. She got the WOW Women in Creative Industries ‘Fighting the Good Fight’ award in 2018. And, the honours keep rolling in... Most recently in 2021 Split Britches’ theatre-piece-cum-zoom-film Last Gasp has been nominated for the Drama League award for Outstanding Digital Production. Not even a pandemic can stop this woman from being creative. Weaver is also a professor of contemporary performance at Queen Mary University of London. She also pioneered a form of public engagement called the <a href="http://www.split-britches.com/long-table" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">long table</a>.  Credits:<ul><li>Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana Fox</li><li>Post-production mixing by Stacey Harvey</li><li>Themesong written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing</li><li>Special thanks to Charlotte Troy, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses.</li></ul>Would you like to see your name in the above credits list? In a couple of short steps, you can make that happen by supporting this podcast via Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/orianafox" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/orianafox</a>

Hyper-femme superhero alter ego with artist Lois Weaver

Peggy Shaw

Iconic lesbian feminist performance company Split Britches’ Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver talk with Jen Harvie about the forty years they’ve worked with – and loved – each other. We discuss how they met, how they’ve sustained collaboration and communication, and how changes in cultural attitudes to sexuality and gender affect Retro(per)spective, the joyous cocktail of greatest-hits scenes from past work they are touring. We consider the importance of performing with love and care, and when to shout and when to whisper.  https://splitbritches.wordpress.com/

Iconic lesbian feminist performance company Split Britches’ Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver talk with Jen Harvie about the forty years they’ve worked with – and loved – each other. We discuss how they met, how they’ve sustained collaboration and communication, and how changes in cultural attitudes to sexuality and gender affect Retro(per)spective, the joyous cocktail of greatest-hits scenes from past work they are touring. We consider the importance of performing with love and care, and when to shout and when to whisper. <a href="https://splitbritches.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://splitbritches.wordpress.com/</a>

Episode 5 :: Split Britches :: Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw

Suzanne Lacey

In this episode we are at the National Review of Live Art where Robert Ayres speaks to Nan Hoover, Laura Trevail, Suzanne Lacey, Lee Hassell and Lois Weaver. We also get some sense of what it is like to be there. New Territories continues until March the 8th at Tramway in Glasgow. The podcast was produced by Woods Noble Media and is introduced by Alison Hutcheson.

Nan Hoover, Laura Trevail, Suzanne Lacey, Lee Hassell and Lois Weaver