Feminist Theatre Books

New and Published Books

1. Women's Intercultural Performance

   By Julie Holledge, Joanne Tompkins

   This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world. Contemporary feminist performance is explored in the contexts of current intercultural practices, theories and debates. Holledge and Tompkins provide ways of thinking about and analysing...

   Published June 28th 2000 by Routledge
2. Recording Women

   A Documentation of Six Theatre Productions

   By Geraldine Cousin

   Recording Women documents the work of three leading feminist theater companies in Britain Productions featured are: Scarlet Theatre's Paper Walls, Foursight Theatre's Boadicea: The Red-Bellied Queen, Scarlet Theatre's adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters, Sphinx's Voyage in the Dark, Slap, and...

   Published January 9th 2000 by Routledge
3. War Plays by Women

   An International Anthology

   By Agnes Cardinal, Elaine Turner, Claire M. Tylee

   This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War, including plays from Germany and France never before available in translation. Representing a range of dramatic forms, from radio play to street-epic, from comic sketch to musical, this anthology includes plays...

   Published September 1st 1999 by Routledge
4. Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook

   By Elaine Aston

   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...

   Published March 10th 1999 by Routledge
5. Subversions

   By Erika Block, Gabriele Griffin, Julie Wilkinson

   Published April 28th 1998 by Routledge
6. Dancing Women

   Female Bodies Onstage

   By Sally Banes

   Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that...

   Published January 28th 1998 by Routledge
7. Re-Dressing the Canon

   Essays on Theatre and Gender

   By Alisa Solomon

   Re-Dressing the Canon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis. Alisa Solomon discusses both canonical texts and contemporary productions in a lively jargon-free style....

   Published October 29th 1997 by Routledge
8. Augustine (Big Hysteria)

   By Anna Furse

   Published September 4th 1997 by Routledge
9. A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance

   On and Beyond the Stage

   Edited by Carol Martin

   Series: Worlds of Performance

   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...

   Published November 6th 1996 by Routledge
10. Women In Russian Theatre

    The Actress in the Silver Age

    By Catherine Schuler

    Series: Gender in Performance

    A fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanislavsky, Chekov and Meyerhold. Schuler focuses upon the extraordinary lives and work of eight Russian actresses....

    Published October 9th 1996 by Routledge