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: |
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... example—but not asa practicebased subject. In an introduction tofeminist theatre, Lizabeth Goodman highlightshow, asan academic subject,feminist theatre is 'informedby' a numberof disciplines, including, for example, women's studies ...
... example—but not asa practicebased subject. In an introduction tofeminist theatre, Lizabeth Goodman highlightshow, asan academic subject,feminist theatre is 'informedby' a numberof disciplines, including, for example, women's studies ...
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... example, describesthewomen writers' salon hosted in1990 through the new writing company Paines Plough: The salonmetonce fortnightlyatthe Paines Plough offices.Itwas attendedbya variedgroup ofwomen united by a commoninterest in writing ...
... example, describesthewomen writers' salon hosted in1990 through the new writing company Paines Plough: The salonmetonce fortnightlyatthe Paines Plough offices.Itwas attendedbya variedgroup ofwomen united by a commoninterest in writing ...
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... example,feminist protestersat theMissWorldbeauty contestsin the late 1960sandearly 1970sstaged counter spectacles, by decoratingtheir ownbodies with flashing lightsattached to clothing at their breasts and crotches, or paradinga dummy ...
... example,feminist protestersat theMissWorldbeauty contestsin the late 1960sandearly 1970sstaged counter spectacles, by decoratingtheir ownbodies with flashing lightsattached to clothing at their breasts and crotches, or paradinga dummy ...
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... example— feminist critics sought to challenge the ways in which women were 'seen'. In the context offilm,Laura Mulvey's groundbreaking essay on'Visualpleasure andnarrative cinema' (1975), drew our attentionto the binary heterosexual ...
... example— feminist critics sought to challenge the ways in which women were 'seen'. In the context offilm,Laura Mulvey's groundbreaking essay on'Visualpleasure andnarrative cinema' (1975), drew our attentionto the binary heterosexual ...
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... It was not so much aquestion of finding new forms,but of reworking old or established formsand styles, inthe interestsof feminist dramaticand stage practice/s. Playwright Caryl Churchill, for example, talked about an awareness of.
... It was not so much aquestion of finding new forms,but of reworking old or established formsand styles, inthe interestsof feminist dramaticand stage practice/s. Playwright Caryl Churchill, for example, talked about an awareness of.
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