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Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136735202
This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.
Author : Kim Solga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137463012
Theatre & Feminism tells the story of the movement known as feminist performance theory. It explores key debates from its 40-year history, engages with the work of groundbreaking thinkers including Elin Diamond, Jill Dolan, Peggy Phelan and Elaine Aston, and includes case studies of recent performances by established and emerging feminist artists.
Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134882250
At last an accessible and intelligent introduction to the energising and challenging relationship between feminism and theatre. In this clear and enlightening book, Aston discusses wide-ranging theoretical topics and provides case studies including: * Feminism and theatre history * `M/Othering the self': French feminist theory and theatre * Black women: shaping feminist theatre * Performing gender: a materialist practice * Colonial landscapes Feminist thought is changing the way theatre is taught and practised. An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre is compulsory reading for anyone who requires a precise, insightful and up-to-date guide to this dynamic field of study.
Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801839696
A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.
Author : Niki Tulk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000580648
This book offers a matrixial, feminist-centered analysis of trauma and performance, through examining the work of three artists: Ann Hamilton, Renée Green, and Cecilia Vicuña. Each artist engages in a multi-media, or “combination” performance practice; this includes the use of site, embodied performance, material elements, film, and writing. Each case study involves traumatic content, including the legacy of slavery, child sexual abuse and environmental degradation; each artist constructs an aesthetic milieu that invites rather than immerses—this allows an audience to have agency, as well as multiple pathways into their engagement with the art. The author Niki Tulk suggests that these works facilitate an audience-performance relationship based on the concept of ethical witnessing/wit(h)nessing, in which viewers are not positioned as voyeurs, nor made to risk re-traumatization by being forced to view traumatic events re-played on stage. This approach also allows agency to the art itself, in that an ethical space is created where the art is not objectified or looked at—but joined with. Foundational to this investigation are the writings of Bracha L. Ettinger, Jill Bennett and Diana Taylor—particularly Ettinger’s concepts of the matrixial, carriance and border-linking. These artists and scholars present a capacity to expand and articulate answers to questions regarding how to make performance that remains compelling and truthful to the trauma experience, but not re-traumatizing. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, art history, visual arts, feminist studies, theatre, film, performance art, postcolonialism, rhetoric and writing.
Author : Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134906956
Contemporary Feminist Theatres is a major evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968. Lizbeth Goodman provides a provocative and interdisciplinary study of the development of feminist theatres in Britain. She examines the treatment of key issues such as gender, race, sexuality, language and power in performance. Based on original research and fresh data, Contemporary Feminst Theatres is a fully comprehensive and admirably clear analysis of a flourishing field of practice and inquiry.
Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134771516
A practical guide to theatre-making designed to take the reader through the stages of making feminist theatre. Organised into three instructive parts; Women in the Workshop, Dramatic Texts, Feminist Contexts & Gender and Devising Projects.
Author : Elin Diamond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134982134
In Unmaking Mimesis Elin Diamond interrogates the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance. She combines psychoanalytic, semiotic and materialist strategies with readings of selected plays by writers as diverse as Ibsen, Brecht, Aphra Behn, Caryl Churchill and Peggy Shaw. Through a series of provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance she demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today. Unmaking Mimesis will interest theatre scholars and performance and cultural theorists, for all of whom issues of text, representation and embodiment are of compelling concern.
Author : Carol Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134844234
This work is a unique collection of key articles on feminist theatre and performance form The Drama Review (TDR). Carol Martin juxtaposes theory and practice to provide an exceptionally comprehensive overview of the development of feminist theatre. This outstanding collection includes key texts by theorists such as Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan and Lynda Hart and interviews with practitioners including Anna Deveare Smith and Robbie McCauley. It also contains full performances texts by two of the most influential and controversial practiitioners of feminist theatre: Dress Suits to Hire by Holly Hughes and The Constant State of Desire by Karen Finley. A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance is an essential purchase for students of theatre studies, performance studies and women's theatre.
Author : G. Harris,E. Aston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230554948
This work is a timely contribution to the debates surrounding feminism, theatre and performance. The excellent, cross-generational mix of theatre scholars and practitioners engaging in lively, cutting-edge debates on critical topics make this essential reading for students and scholars in Theatre and Performance Studies as well as Gender Studies.
Author : Helene Keyssar
Publisher : Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1984 (1986 printing)
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : PSU:000021990168
Focuses on the works of Pam Gems, Michalene Wandor, Caryl Churchill, Megan Terry, and Ntozake Shange.
Author : Elizabeth Jo Natalle
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015009015648
Author : Susan A. Glenn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780674037663
When the French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term feminism had not yet entered our national vocabulary. But over the course of the next half-century, a rising generation of daring actresses and comics brought a new kind of woman to center stage. Exploring and exploiting modern fantasies and fears about female roles and gender identity, these performers eschewed theatrical convention and traditional notions of womanly modesty. They created powerful images of themselves as ambitious, independent, and sexually expressive New Women. Female Spectacle reveals the theater to have been a powerful new source of cultural authority and visibility for women. Ironically, theater also provided an arena in which producers and audiences projected the uncertainties and hostilities that accompanied changing gender relations. From Bernhardt's modern methods of self-promotion to Emma Goldman's political theatrics, from the female mimics and Salome dancers to the upwardly striving chorus girl, Glenn shows us how and why theater mattered to women and argues for its pivotal role in the emergence of modern feminism.
Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472081608
Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance
Author : Carey Purcell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538115268
Theatre has long been considered a feminine interest for which women consistently purchase the majority of tickets, while the shows they are seeing typically are written and brought to the stage by men. Furthermore, the stories these productions tell are often about men, and the complex leading roles in these shows are written for and performed by male actors. Despite this imbalance, the feminist voice presses to be heard and has done so with more success than ever before. In From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theatre, Carey Purcell traces the evolution of these important artists and productions over several centuries. After examining the roots of feminist theatre in early Greek plays and looking at occasional works produced before the twentieth century, Purcell then identifies the key players and productions that have emerged over the last several decades. This book covers the heyday of the second wave feminist movement—which saw the growth of female-centric theatre groups—and highlights the work of playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Pam Gems, and Wendy Wasserstein. Other prominent artists discussed here include playwrights Paula Vogel Lynn and Tony-award winning directors Garry Hynes and Julie Taymor. The volume also examines diversity in contemporary feminist theatre—with discussions of such playwrights as Young Jean Lee and Lynn Nottage—and a look toward the future. Purcell explores the very nature of feminist theater—does it qualify if a play is written by a woman or does it just need to feature strong female characters?—as well as how notable activist work for feminism has played a pivotal role in theatre. An engaging survey of female artists on stage and behind the scenes, From Aphra Behn to Fun Home will be of interest to theatregoers and anyone interested in the invaluable contributions of women in the performing arts.