Feminist Theatre Practice: A HandbookFeminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook is a helpful, practical guide to theatre-making which explores the different ways of representing gender. Best-selling author, Elaine Aston, takes the reader through the various stages of making feminist theatre- from warming up, through workshopped exploration, to performance - this volume is organised into three clear and instructive parts: * Women in the Workshop * Dramatic Texts, Feminist Contexts * Gender and Devising Projects. Orientated around the classroom/workshop, Handbook of Feminist Theatre Practice encompasses the main elements of feminist theatre, both practical or theoretical. |
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... Elaine AstonisSenior Lecturerin TheatreStudies at Loughborough University. She is author of An Introduction to Feminism andTheatre (Routledge, 1995),andcoauthorof Theatre as SignSystem (Routledge, 1991). F e m i n i s t T h.
... Elaine AstonisSenior Lecturerin TheatreStudies at Loughborough University. She is author of An Introduction to Feminism andTheatre (Routledge, 1995),andcoauthorof Theatre as SignSystem (Routledge, 1991). F e m i n i s t T h.
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... Loughborough University.In particular, I should liketothank Sandy Ankers, Helen Burgun, Anna Burns, Cara Greczyn, Justine Greene, Adele Greensall, Emma Healey, Lucy Hodgson, ChrissieKiff, Stephanie Little, YvonneMycock, KatieRice ...
... Loughborough University.In particular, I should liketothank Sandy Ankers, Helen Burgun, Anna Burns, Cara Greczyn, Justine Greene, Adele Greensall, Emma Healey, Lucy Hodgson, ChrissieKiff, Stephanie Little, YvonneMycock, KatieRice ...
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