1st Edition
Performing Womanhood in Eastern Europe The Other White Woman
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Chapter 1. Myself as bait: An introduction
Chapter 2. Female theatre makers under surveillance: Gender issues in the archives of secret police
Chapter 3. If you had only spoken . . .: Counter-narratives and marginalised histories of women before and after 1989
Chapter 4. Cross-dressing as resistance under dictatorship: The case of Miluță Gheorghiu
Chapter 5. A little inferno: The reinforcement of women’s stereotyped roles through theatre repertories yesterday and today
Chapter 6. Witnesses of history: The women behind great men on stage: Danuta Wałęsa, Raisa Gorbachev, Elena Ceaușescu
Chapter 7. ‘Divorcing’ Stanislavski to ‘marry’ Brecht: Brechtian strategies in productions authored by women theatre makers in Eastern Europe
Chapter 8. The Cinderella Complex: Five new plays from post socialist Eastern Europe
Chapter 9. Re-structuring the self: Stories of exile, displacement, the alienation effect and its creative power on- and off-stage
Chapter 10. The feminist geopolitical gap: Can it be closed on-stage?
Index
Biography
Cristina Modreanu is a theatre critic, curator and researcher at the University of the Arts in Târgu-Mureș, Romania. Holding a PhD in theatre studies from National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, she is a Fulbright Alumna and the author of six books on Romanian theatre, including A History of Romanian Theatre from Communism to Capitalism (Routledge, 2020).
