ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |2 pages

Prologue: Handing on ideas

part |1 pages

Part I Women in the workshop

chapter 2|20 pages

Feminist directions

chapter 3|15 pages

Finding a body, finding a voice

chapter 4|22 pages

Enter gender

part |1 pages

Part II Dramatic texts, feminist contexts

chapter 5|22 pages

‘Cultural sniping’

chapter 6|20 pages

Past tense, present tense

chapter 7|20 pages

Activating the feminist script

part |1 pages

Part III Gender and devising projects

chapter 8|16 pages

Creating texts

chapter 9|13 pages

Re-figuring lives

chapter 10|21 pages

Performing your selves