1st Edition

Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook

By Elaine Aston Copyright 1999
    236 Pages
    by Routledge

    232 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Elaine Aston