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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... tothe pointwhere, in the 1990s,it has emergedas a theoretical field of practice that deserves more attention thanit hasbeen given. Practice, more specificallyfeminist practice, as taughtand experiencedin the theatreacademy isthe subject ...
... tothe pointwhere, in the 1990s,it has emergedas a theoretical field of practice that deserves more attention thanit hasbeen given. Practice, more specificallyfeminist practice, as taughtand experiencedin the theatreacademy isthe subject ...
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... to the objectification of womenin the realisttradition, andin particular,tothe characterbased, Methodacting, derivedfromthe teachingsof ConstantinStanislavski, attendantuponit. The character roles made available for women to 'get into ...
... to the objectification of womenin the realisttradition, andin particular,tothe characterbased, Methodacting, derivedfromthe teachingsof ConstantinStanislavski, attendantuponit. The character roles made available for women to 'get into ...
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... tothe 'realplay'of Street Car.Aviolent encounter between them ensues.Blanche objects,butStanley counters:'Ifyouwant to playawoman, thewoman in thisplay gets rapedandgoes crazy intheend' (see page). Refiguring the body: culturalfeminist ...
... tothe 'realplay'of Street Car.Aviolent encounter between them ensues.Blanche objects,butStanley counters:'Ifyouwant to playawoman, thewoman in thisplay gets rapedandgoes crazy intheend' (see page). Refiguring the body: culturalfeminist ...
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... tothe symbolic ordering ofsocial and cultural representation and communication. Inthis model, subjectivityis recognisedas problematic forwomen,who arerequired to participate linguistically, socially, culturally,etc., ina system that ...
... tothe symbolic ordering ofsocial and cultural representation and communication. Inthis model, subjectivityis recognisedas problematic forwomen,who arerequired to participate linguistically, socially, culturally,etc., ina system that ...
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Elaine Aston. 1. ndividually. By writing herself, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from ... tothe bodyas thesite and practice of écriture féminine which madeit appear particularly attractive tofeminist ...
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