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Author | : Emily E. Denison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : |
In the wake of Emily Glassberg Sands' well-publicized thesis, Opening the Curtain on Playwright Gender, theater artists across the country are up in arms about the disparity that has long existed between male and female playwrights. Glassberg Sands' audit study showed that literary managers and artistic directors rate female-authored scripts lower in terms of quality, marketability, and audience response. In addition, recent studies show that only 20% of the plays produced in American regional theaters each year have female playwrights. As a positive step towards equality, I curated and produced a festival of new American plays by women entitled Voices in Contemporary Feminism(s). It was my goal to instigate change first by staging new American plays by women and then by engaging artists and audience members alike in conversation about feminism(s) and feminist themes, female playwrights, the current position of women in American theater, and how we can change the status quo. This thesis describes in detail the impetus behind creating the festival, the planning process, and the events of the festival itself, and then draws conclusions about the role dramaturgs can play in combating gender inequity.
Author | : Helene Keyssar |
Publisher | : Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1984 (1986 printing) |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Focuses on the works of Pam Gems, Michalene Wandor, Caryl Churchill, Megan Terry, and Ntozake Shange.
Author | : Lizbeth Goodman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134906951 |
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 | : Özden Sözalan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This study presents analyses of a wide range of contemporary plays written by women dramatists from a feminist theoretical perspective. It offers creative insights into the exchange between women's dramatic writing and feminist theories of subjectivity and representation in the last three decades and attends to the processes through which the female subject is reconfigured in the theatrical and theoretical spaces created by women. The book is valuable reading for students of theatre and comparative studies, as well as anyone interested in women's writing. The authors treated include Hélène Cixous, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Helen Edmundson, Caryl Churchill, Sheila Yeger, April De Angelis, Anna Furse, Wendy Kesselman, Susan Sontag, Liz Lochhead.
Author | : Sue-Ellen Case |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2008-02-14 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1350316512 |
This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre. The reissued edition features a new Foreword by Elaine Aston who examines the context in which Case's book was written, the influence it has had, subsequent developments in the field and the continued importance of the work.
Author | : Sue-Ellen Case |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1990-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780801839696 |
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 | : Rebecca Benzie |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2024-08-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1350191272 |
When we think of the contemporary British history play, why might we automatically think of playwrights such as David Hare, Howard Brenton, Peter Gill and Edward Bond? Because for decades the writing of the history play has been the preserve of the white male. This book provides a vital feminist intervention into the dramaturgy of history plays, investigating work produced at major British theatres from 2000 to the present, written by a generation of innovative women playwrights. This much-needed study explores the use of history – specifically Elizabethan, Restoration, Victorian and early 20th century – in contemporary playwriting in order to interrogate the gender politics of this work. Within the framework of contemporary feminism – including the pivotal #MeToo movement – the book looks at post-2000s feminist drama that somehow represents the past. Through delving into the recurring tropes and their politics in the light of current feminist debate, the author helps us grasp how these plays essentially re-imagine gender politics. Plays that are considered include Emilia (Morgan Lloyd Malcolm), Swive [Elizabeth] (Ella Hickson), An August Bank Holiday Lark (Deborah McAndrew), The Empress (Tanika Gupta), Red Velvet (Lolita Chakrabarti), Scuttlers (Rona Munro), I, Joan (Charlie Josephine), Blue Stockings and Nell Gwynn (Jessica Swale), and the musical Six (Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss).
Author | : Lynda Hart |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780472063895 |
The first scholarly collection to discuss the intersection of feminism and dramatic theory
Author | : Gail Finney |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801499258 |
Author | : E. Aston |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137300140 |
Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance.