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  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Feminism and Theatre Sue-Ellen Case, 2014-09-03 This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Feminism and Theatre Sue-Ellen Case, 2014-09-03 This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Performing Feminisms Sue-Ellen Case, 1990-02 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.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Split Britches Sue-Ellen Case, 2013-11-05 The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. This unique anthology comes complete with: * seven of Split Britches' best loved performance texts * a critical, historical introduction by Sue-Ellen Case * programme notes to accompany each of the plays * a range of stunning photographic illustrations The publication of the Split Britches play texts, collected here for the first time, provides invaluable access to these celebrated performance pieces for both the student and contemporary arts audience.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Feminist and Queer Performance Sue-Ellen Case, 2009 Sue-Ellen Case is arguably the most influential and significant scholar in feminist and queer theatre studies. This collection brings together her most important writing. Framing this with new introductory material, Sue-Ellen Case will contextualise her work within broader developments in critical theory and feminist / lesbian studies.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Domain-Matrix Sue-Ellen Case, 1996 The Domain-Matrix is about the passage from print culture to electronic screen culture and how this passage affects the reader or computer user. Sections are organized to emulate, in a printed book, the reader's experience of computer windows. Case traces the portrait of virtual identities within queer and lesbian critical practice and virtual technologies. The book poses several key questions: How do the competing orders of print and the screen situate the body? How do they treat notions of the live? Written to encourage a reading strategy somewhere between print and hypertext, the book is divided into sections which prompt the reader to link them in non-sequential orders.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times Elin Diamond, Denise Varney, Candice Amich, 2017-04-29 This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender, sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of discrimination, and the social consequences of political economies based on free market ideology. The investigations of affect theory follow the circulation of intensities – of political impingements on bodies, subjective and symbolic violence, and the shock of dispossession – within and beyond individuals to the social and political sphere. Affect is a helpful matrix for discussing the volatile interactivity between performer and spectator, whether live or technologically mediated. Contending that there is no activism without affect, the collection brings back to the table the activist and hopeful potential of feminism.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Feminist Spectator as Critic Jill Dolan, 1991 Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Decomposition Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, Susan Leigh Foster, 2000 Essays aimed at understanding performance in a postmodern world.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Staging International Feminisms E. Aston, S. Case, 2007-10-17 This is a landmark anthology of international feminist theatre research. A three-part structure orientates readers through Cartographies of feminist critical navigations of the global arena; the staging of feminist Interventions in a range of international contexts; and Manifestos for today's feminist practitioners, activists and academics.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Shakespearean Negotiations Stephen Greenblatt, 1988 Stephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Oxford Handbook of American Drama Jeffrey H. Richards, Heather S. Nathans, 2014-02 This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook Elaine Aston, 2005-07-05 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.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Modern Stage and Other Worlds (Routledge Revivals) Austin E. Quigley, 2015-08-11 Modern plays are strikingly diverse and, as a result, any attempt to locate an underlying unity between them encounters difficulties: to focus on what they have in common is often to overlook what is of primary importance in particular plays; to focus on their differences is to note the novelty of the plays without increasing their accessibility. In this study, first published in 1985, Austin E. Quigley takes as his paradigm case the relationship between the world of the stage and the world of the audience, and explores various modes of communication between domains. He asks how changes in the structure of the drama relate to changes in the structure of the theatre, and changes in the role of the audience. Detailed interpretations of plays by Pinero, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett and Pinter question principles about the modern theatre and establish links between drama structure and theatre structure, theme, and performance space.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Great Reckonings in Little Rooms Bert O. States, 2023-09-01 This is a book about the theater phenomenon. It is an extension of notes on the theater and theatergoing that have been accumulating for some time. It does not have an argument, or set out to prove a thesis, and it will not be one of those useful books one reads for the fruits of its research. Rather, it is a form of critical description that is phenomenological in the sense that it focuses on the activity of theater making itself out of its essential materials: speech, sound, movement, scenery, text, etc. Like most phenomenological description, it will succeed to the extent that it awakens the reader's memory of his own perceptual encounters with theater. If the book fails in this it will be about as interesting to read as an anthology of someone else's dreams. In any case, this book is less concerned with the scientific purity of my perspective and method than with retrieving something from the theater experience that seems to me worthy of our critical admiration. This is a book about the theater phenomenon. It is an extension of notes on the theater and theatergoing that have been accumulating for some time. It does not have an argument, or set out to prove a thesis, and it will not be one of those useful books on
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Sexual Politics Kate Millett, 2016-02-16 A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life. This new edition features the scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon and the New Yorker correspondent Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett's work to challenging the complacency that sidelines feminism.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Theatre and Feminism Kim Solga, 2016 Theatre & Feminism tells the story of the movement known as feminist performance theory. It explores key debates from its 40-year history, engages with the work of groundbreaking thinkers including Elin Diamond, Jill Dolan, Peggy Phelan and Elaine Aston, and includes case studies of recent performances by established and emerging feminist artists.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women Penny Farfan, Lesley Ferris, 2021-07-22 Explores how women playwrights illuminate the contemporary world and contribute to its reshaping
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights Elaine Aston, Janelle G. Reinelt, 2000 This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance Lizbeth Goodman, Jane de Gay, 2002-01-31 The first reader in this field Contributions from many of the top academics in the field Extremely broad in its coverage Organized with the beginning student in mind
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Cambridge Introduction to Performance Theory Simon Shepherd, 2016-03-17 This engaging account explains the meaning and origins of performance theory and why it has become so important.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Cloud 9 Caryl Churchill, 1984 A two-act play in which preconceptions about gender, romance, and lifestyle are scrambled, neutralized, and possibly even rebuilt.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Theory/Theatre Mark Fortier, 2005-07-08 This is a new and enlarged edition of Mark Fortier's very successful and widely used essential text for students. Theory/Theatre provides a unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Fortier lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, through cultural materialism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory. This new edition includes: * More detailed explanation of key ideas * New 'Putting it into practice' sections at the end of each chapter so you can approach performances from specific theoretical perspectives * Annotated further reading section and glossary. Theory/Theatre is still the only study of its kind and is invaluable reading for beginning students and scholars of performance studies.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Feminist Studies Nina Lykke, 2010-04-05 In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in/exclusion based on race, class, and sexuality. Lykke confronts and contrasts classical stances in feminist epistemology with poststructuralist and postconstructionist feminisms, and also brings bodily materiality into dialogue with theories of the performativity of gender and sex. This thorough and needed analysis of the state of Feminist Studies will be a welcome addition to scholars and students in Gender and Women’s Studies and Sociology.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: A Stage of Their Own Sheila Stowell, 1994
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Gender and Politics in Greek Tragedy Michael X. Zelenak, 1998 Explores themes and issues of gender identity and political ideology in plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Zelenak (drama, Florida State U.) explores historical features of politics and gender in fifth-century BC Athens as they relate to the institution of tragedy and the City Dionysia. He also offers critical readings of seven plays in the light of the themes of gender and politics, including Suppliant Maidens, Oresteia, Antigone, Alcestis, Medea, and Philoctetes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 Karen Offen, 2018-01-11 A magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the heated debates around the 'woman question' during the French Third Republic.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Necessary Targets Eve Ensler, 2003 THE STORY: In NECESSARY TARGETS, two American women, a Park Avenue psychiatrist and an ambitious young writer, travel to Bosnia to help women refugees confront their memories of war. Though the two have little in common beyond the methods they use
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: My Mother Said I Never Should Charlotte Keatley, 2016-06-22 I don't know if you'll ever love me as much as I love you, but one day you'll understand why I've done this to you. Doris, born illegitimate in 1900, exchanges her budding teaching career for marriage and motherhood. When the war is over, her daughter Margaret marries an American and has Jackie, who becomes an archetypal 60s rebel. When Jackie can't face being a single mother, it is decided that baby Rosie will be brought up as Margaret's own. That's the plan anyway . . . Charlotte Keatley's award-winning play is a moving exploration of the relationships between mothers and daughters, and the consequences of breaking the most sacred taboo of motherhood. My Mother Said I Never Should is about the choices we make which determine the course of our lives and how it is never too late to change. This edition was published to coincide with the revival of the play at the St James Theatre, London, in 2016, starring Maureen Lipman and Katie Brayben.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Rattigan Version Bertram A. Young, 1988
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Death of the Playwright? Adrian Page, 1992-02-24 The nine essays in this volume make significant contributions to the development of contemporary literary theory and demonstrate how a range of new approaches can be applied to modern British drama. In addressing the questions of power, subjectivity, sexuality, psychoanalysis, and the nature of the dramatic text, the contributors reveal how much modern drama can be re-read to discover its radically subversive characteristics. Their conclusions challenge accepted interpretations and suggest major revisions of the processes of understanding and staging drama.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi Pam Gems, 2013-07-09 'My loves, what are we to do? We don't do as they want any more, and they hate it. What are we to do?' Four determinedly 'liberated' – and very different – women ricochet around a tiny shared flat, while trying to pull together the shattered strands of their lives: Dusa is struggling to regain her children from their father, Fish is losing her lover to another woman, Stas is on the game to finance the course she wants to study at university, while Vi steadfastly refuses to eat.... A bitingly sardonic modern classic, widely regarded as an historic icon of early feminism, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi was first seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1976 under the title Dead Fish, Michael Codron transferred the play to the West End under its new title where it enjoyed a huge success and established Pam Gems as a major new voice in British theatre.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Gut Girls Sarah Daniels, 2017-04-03 Premiéred at London's Albany Empire in 1988 and set in Deptford at the turn of the century this play traces the lives of the girls who work in the gutting sheds of the Cattle Market and how their lives are changed when the sheds are closed down. Although the girls are unwilling participants in a club founded by Lady Helena to find alternative employment the results are not without tragic consequences.11 women, 6 men
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Doing the Time Warp Sarah Taylor Ellis, 2022-01-27 Doing the Time Warp explores how song and dance – sites of aesthetic difference in the musical – can 'warp' time and enable marginalized and semi-marginalized fans to imagine different ways of being in the world. While the musical is a bastion of mainstream theatrical culture, it also supports a fan culture of outsiders who dream themselves into being in the strange, liminal timespaces of its musical numbers. Through analysing musicals of stage and screen – ranging from Rent to Ragtime, Glee to Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music – Sarah Taylor Ellis investigates how alienated subjects find moments of coherence and connection in musical theatre's imaginaries of song and dance. Exploring an array of archival work and live performance, such as Larry Gelbart's papers in the UCLA Performing Arts Collections and the shadowcast performances of Los Angeles's Sins o' the Flesh, Doing the Time Warp probes the politics of musicals and consider show the genre's 'strange temporalities' can point towards new futurities for identities and communities in difference.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Woman's Part Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene, Carol Thomas Neely, 1980 El documento analiza las figuras femeninas en la obra literaria de william shakespeare desde una critica feminista. Esta compuesto por un conjunto de articulos de diversos autores que giran en torno a dicho tema.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: The Plays of Roswitha Hrotsvitha, 2023-11-15 The Plays of Roswitha, also known as Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, represents a significant literary artifact from the 10th century, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of Western drama. Written in a highly structured, eloquent Latin reminiscent of classical Roman playwrights, Hrotsvitha'Äôs works illuminate themes of virtue, faith, and female agency within a patriarchal society. Her innovative use of dialogue and character development not only revitalizes ancient storytelling forms but establishes a distinct voice that resonates with the ethical and moral concerns of her time, forging links between secular and sacred narratives. Hrotsvitha was a Benedictine nun whose scholarly pursuits at the Gandersheim Abbey influenced her to create these plays. Educated in a time when women's contributions to literature and drama were largely overlooked, her writings emerge as an early feminist response to the treatises of male-authored texts. Her dedication to capturing the spiritual and moral fortitude of women reflects her own experiences and the intellectual atmosphere of her tumultuous era, simultaneously engaging with and defying the norms that sought to confine female roles in society. This compelling collection is highly recommended for readers interested in the origins of European drama, early feminist literature, and the intersection of religion and the arts. Hrotsvitha'Äôs unique voice provides valuable insights into medieval society while reviving classical themes, making The Plays of Roswitha a must-read for scholars and enthusiasts alike.
  feminism and theatre sue ellen case: Utopia in Performance Jill Dolan, 2010-02-05 Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come. ---David Román, University of Southern California What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change. She traces these utopian performatives in a range of performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; multicharacter solo performances by Lily Tomlin, Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith; the slam poetry event Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket, a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson; Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the book richly captures moments of feeling utopia found within specific performances, it also celebrates the broad potential that performance has to provide a forum for being human together; for feeling love, hope, and commonality in particular and historical (rather than universal and transcendent) ways.
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