Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Part I: History.Art versus business: the role of women in American theatre /Helen Krich Chinoy --Women for women /Charlotte Rea --The WOW cafe /Alisa Solomon --Notes on lesbian theatre /Emily L. Sisley --Women at the helm: in leadership posts once reserved for men, they're challenging our assumptions about sex and power /Misha Berson --Part II: Theory.Bearing witness: Anna Deavere Smith from community to theatre to mass media /Carol Martin --In defense of the discourse: materialist feminism, postmodernism, poststucturalism ... and theory /Jill Dolan --Motherhood according to Karen Finley: The Theory of total blame /Lynda Hart --Brechtian theory/feminist theory: toward a gestic feminist criticism /Elin Diamond --Reading past the heterosexual imperative: Dress suits to hire /Kate Davy --Feminist theory, poststructuralism, and performance /Peggy Phelan --Part III: Interviews.Anna Deavere Smith: the word becomes you /Carol Martin --Robbie McCauley: Obsessing in public /Vivian Patraka --Holly Hughes: polymorphous perversity and the lesbian scientist /Rebecca Schneider --Karen Finley: a constant state of becoming /Richard Schechner --Part IV: Texts.Dress suits to hire /Holly Hughes, Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw --The Constant state of desire /Karen Finley.