Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook [Hardcover]

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.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.List of illustrations, Acknowledgements, Prologue: handing on ideas, 1 Introduction: stages in feminist theory and practice, PART I Women in the workshop, PART II Dramatic texts, feminist contexts, PART III Gender and devising projects, Appendix: to make your self, GlossaryUS? 1999 Elaine Aston