ABSTRACT
Picture this: a chain of six women, hands outstretched, passing books from woman to woman. This was an image created by the six women devising-performers in the Portraits of Rossetti project described in Chapter 9. It is an image that has remained with me during the writing of this book, in which I am trying to ‘hand on’ practical ideas, which have come largely from working with (mostly) young women concerned with feminist theatre-making, to up-and-coming generations of young women, or indeed, to any generation of women just beginning to discover feminism and feminist theatre-making. The work I present in this handbook has come from over two decades of studying and spectating women’s contribution to theatre and from over a decade of finding feminist ways to make theatre in the academy.
