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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... and the Gender andDevising courses at 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 ...
... and the Gender andDevising courses at 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 ...
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... is that they carrytheexperience andthevisionofa feminist practice with them:into theatre andinto theworldat large, witha viewto connecting, challengingand changing theirown lives, andthe lives ofother women, and of men. C h a p t e r 1 I n.
... is that they carrytheexperience andthevisionofa feminist practice with them:into theatre andinto theworldat large, witha viewto connecting, challengingand changing theirown lives, andthe lives ofother women, and of men. C h a p t e r 1 I n.
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... andthe initiator,for her own right, in every symbolic system, inevery political process. It was this appeal tothe bodyas thesite and practice of écriture féminine which madeit appear particularly attractive tofeminist theatre practice ...
... andthe initiator,for her own right, in every symbolic system, inevery political process. It was this appeal tothe bodyas thesite and practice of écriture féminine which madeit appear particularly attractive tofeminist theatre practice ...
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... andthe limitations andoppressions ofsuch systems for women. In Alice Doesn't (1984), de Lauretis employed a complex methodologyrootedinfeminism, semiotics, psychoanalysis and cinema, todemonstrate thegap between 'woman',defined as ...
... andthe limitations andoppressions ofsuch systems for women. In Alice Doesn't (1984), de Lauretis employed a complex methodologyrootedinfeminism, semiotics, psychoanalysis and cinema, todemonstrate thegap between 'woman',defined as ...
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... and the representational in a 'not that', resistant style of playing, the feminist performer found a useful ally in the political ... andthe way in which women arelookedat, itoffered the opportunity to makea critical interventionin the ...
... and the representational in a 'not that', resistant style of playing, the feminist performer found a useful ally in the political ... andthe way in which women arelookedat, itoffered the opportunity to makea critical interventionin the ...
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