Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook

by Elaine Aston

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415139250
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/11/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elaine Aston

Table of Contents

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’, Glossary