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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... theatremaking that 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 ...
... theatremaking that 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 ...
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... feminist theatremaking, to upandcoming generations of young women, or indeed, to any generation of women just beginning to discover feminism and feminist ... make theatre in the academy. In Britain and P r o l o g u e : ...
... feminist theatremaking, to upandcoming generations of young women, or indeed, to any generation of women just beginning to discover feminism and feminist ... make theatre in the academy. In Britain and P r o l o g u e : ...
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Elaine Aston. ways to make theatre in the academy. In Britain and in North America the staffing of theatre studies courses remains predominantly male, while, onthe other hand, drama degree programmes continue to recruitlarge populations of ...
Elaine Aston. ways to make theatre in the academy. In Britain and in North America the staffing of theatre studies courses remains predominantly male, while, onthe other hand, drama degree programmes continue to recruitlarge populations of ...
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... women's creativity. My work in the theatre academy has been on a very modestscale, involving small groups of women who have shared an interestin creating theatre that challengestheir representationinour dominant cultural, theatricaland ...
... women's creativity. My work in the theatre academy has been on a very modestscale, involving small groups of women who have shared an interestin creating theatre that challengestheir representationinour dominant cultural, theatricaland ...
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... theatre studies involves three key areas of study: history, theory and practice. On both sides of the Atlantic,theatrehistory has the longestpedagogic 'tradition', while the ... making theatre feminist, or making C h a p t e r 1 ...
... theatre studies involves three key areas of study: history, theory and practice. On both sides of the Atlantic,theatrehistory has the longestpedagogic 'tradition', while the ... making theatre feminist, or making C h a p t e r 1 ...
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