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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 78
Page i
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page v
... body, finding a voice 4 Enter gender PART II Dramatic texts, feminist contexts 5 'Cultural sniping' 6 Past tense, present tense 7 Activating the feminist script PART III Gender and devising projects 8 Creating texts 9 Re-figuring lives ...
... body, finding a voice 4 Enter gender PART II Dramatic texts, feminist contexts 5 'Cultural sniping' 6 Past tense, present tense 7 Activating the feminist script PART III Gender and devising projects 8 Creating texts 9 Re-figuring lives ...
Page vi
Elaine Aston. vi Notes Bibliography Index 208 210 217 Illustrations Plates Allowing the body to breathe Medusa in the.
Elaine Aston. vi Notes Bibliography Index 208 210 217 Illustrations Plates Allowing the body to breathe Medusa in the.
Page vii
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 5
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Contents
Handing on ideas | 1 |
Stages in feminist theory and practice | 3 |
Part I Women in the workshop | 21 |
Part II Dramatic texts feminist contexts | 79 |
Part III Gender and devising projects | 142 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actress autobiographical begin biographical Bloody Chamber body Brechtian canonical Caryl Churchill Chapter characters Churchill’s Cixous collaboration context create creative critique cross-gendered cultural feminism daughter develop devising director discussion dominant dramatic text dramaturg emotional encouraged example exercise experience explore feel female feminine feminism feminist aesthetic feminist critic feminist performance feminist practice feminist theatre practice feminist theatre-making feminist theory figure Fiona Shaw first-person narratives focus gender gender theory gestures group members ideas ideological improvise invited Kathryn Hunter kind King Lear look Loughborough University male Marlene masculine material materialist—feminist monologues Monstrous Regiment mother movement narrative objects offers oppression organisation Paines Plough participants patriarchal performance register photographs physical play playwright political possible practical suggestions practitioners production proposals realism representation resistant Resources section role Rossetti scene Shakespeare share space stage story style theatrical Top Girls visual voice warm-up woman women words workshop writing