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A Sourcebook of Feminist Theatre and Performance brings together key articles first published in The Drama Review (TDR), to provide an intriguing overview of the development of feminist theatre and performance.
Divided into the categories of "history," "theory," "interviews," and "text," the materials in this collection allow the reader to consider the developments of feminist theatre through a variety of perspectives.
This book contains the seminal texts of theorists such as Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan, and Lynda Hart, interviews with performance artists including Anna Deveare Smith and Robbie McCauley, and the full performance texts of Holly Hughes' Dress Suits to Hire and Karen Finley's The Constant State of Desire. The outstanding diversity of this collection makes for an invaluable sourcebook.
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A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance
2004, Taylor & Francis Inc
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0203734785 9780203734780
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A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance: On and Beyond the Stage (Worlds of Performance)
December 6, 1996, Routledge
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A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance: On and Beyond the Stage (Worlds of Performance)
December 4, 1996, Routledge
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"In the decade or more since the women's movement began, a number of books on the female experience in literature, art and architecture, film and dance have been published, but no comparable attempts have been made to identify a women's tradition in the complex art of theatre."
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This work is a unique collection of key articles on feminist theatre and performance from The Drama Review (TDR). Carol Martin juxtaposes theory and practice to provide an exceptionally comprehensive overview of the development of feminist theatre. Includes key texts by theorists such as: Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan, Lynda Hart and interviews with practitioners including Anna Deveare Smith and Robbie McCauley. It also contains full performance texts by two of the most influential and controversial practitioners of feminist theatre: Dress Suits to Hire by Holly Hughes and The Constant State of Desire by Karen Finley.
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