Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook

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Psychology Press, 1999 - Health & Fitness - 222 pages

Feminist 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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Contents

PART I
19
Dramatic texts feminist contexts
79
Past tense present tense
103
PART III
140
Refiguring lives
159
Performing your selves
171
to make your self
191
Notes
207
Index
216
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