ABSTRACT
The first task of the students registered on the course is to begin to construct a definition of women’s performance and to set it against the ways in which men have constructed and defined women’s performance in the past. Women began also to make theatre about the realities that are specific to women, childbirth, child care, women’s health issues, menstruation and the menopause. The women who created the Magdalena project noticed the first strand, of personal stories, emerging as integral to women’s performance work. Women’s Theatre enables us to learn from other women, from their experience, their artistic work and their culture and identity. The important interaction created by the existence of such a course between Women’s Studies and the discipline of Drama is complex. The facilitator of Drama workshops has to approach them with the unshakeable belief that any woman can invent and take part in a piece of theatre at whatever is her level of ability.
