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9780415139243

Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415139243

  • ISBN10:

    0415139244

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-07-26
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Feminist Theatre Practiceis a practical guide to theatre-making which explores the different ways of representing or "seeing" gender. Designed to take the reader through the various stages of making feminist theatre--from warming up, through workshopped exploration, to performance--this volume is grouped into three clear and instructive parts: Women in the Workshop; Dramatic Texts, Feminist Contexts; and Gender and Devising Projects.A Handbook of Feminist Theatre Practiceencompasses the main elements of feminist theatre, whether practical or theoretical, covers topics such as the body, feminist working practices, the canon and feminist aesthetics.

Author Biography

Elaine Aston is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Loughborough University.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
ix
Acknowledgements x
Prologue: handing on ideas 1(2)
Introduction: `stages' in feminist theory and practice
3(18)
PART I Women in the Workshop 21(58)
Feminist directions
23(20)
Finding a body, finding a voice
43(14)
Enter gender
57(22)
PART II Dramatic texts, feminist contexts 79(62)
`Cultural sniping'
81(22)
Past tense, present tense
103(19)
Activating the feminist script
122(19)
PART III Gender and devising projects 141(50)
Creating texts
143(16)
Re-figuring lives
159(12)
Performing your selves
171(20)
Appendix: to make your `self' 191(4)
Glossary 195(12)
Notes 207(2)
Bibliography 209(7)
Index 216

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