Pageant by Joan Fitzpatrick Dean
Judges selected from the audience actually vote and determine the winner who therefore may be different at each performance. The show takes its shots not by mocking the pageant from the outside but by being one. The six contestants compete for the title of Miss Glamouresse (Glamouresse being a cosmetics company). Miss Deep South Miss West Coast Miss Great Plains Miss Bible Belt Miss Industrial Northeast. and Miss Texas and compete in evening gowns talent swim-wear and spokemodeling plus the finalists answer actual calls from the Glamouresse Beauty Crisis Hotline.
Joan FitzPatrick Dean is Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Emerita at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. Her books include All Dressed Up: Modern Irish Historical Pageantry (2014), Riot and Great Anger: Stage Censorship in Twentieth-Century Ireland (2005), and the Cork/Irish Film Institute‘s Dancing at Lughnasa (2004). She was Fulbright Scholar at University College Galway (1992-93) and Fulbright Lecturer at Université de Nancy (1982-83).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781350144521 |
| ISBN 10 | 1350144525 |
| Title | Pageant |
| Author | Joan Fitzpatrick Dean |
| Series | Forms Of Drama |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2021-08-12 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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