ABSTRACT

Using yourselves as creative agents in the making of feminist performance has been the principal focus of this study. In this final chapter, I should like to offer some suggestions for a feminist theatre practice in which you make use of your ‘selves’ not only as the agents but as the subjects of performance. Moreover, I should like to conclude by showing how a mode of autobiographical devising may also serve as a way of discovering and defining feminism. Practical proposals in this chapter are illustrated with reference to two devised projects: (1) on the theme of mothers by daughters and (2) on the subject of growing up in the Thatcher years.