| Description |
ix, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Editors' Introduction / Ellen Donkin and Susan Clement -- Women, Woman, and the Subject of Feminism: Feminist Directions / Esther Beth Sullivan -- 1. Interpreting the Text. Encountering Dora: Putting Theory into Practice / Jeanie Forte and Christine Sumption. The Split Subject of Blood Relations / Susan Clement and Esther Beth Sullivan. Top Girls and the Politics of Representation / Juli Thompson Burk. Black Text, White Director: Issues of Race and Gender in Directing African-American Drama / Ellen Donkin -- 2. Subverting the Text. Strategies for Subverting the Canon / Gay Gibson Cima. Ways of Looking at Agnes de Castro (1695): A Lesbian History Play at WOW Cafe / Kendall. Resisting the Birth Mark: Subverting Hawthorne in a Feminist Theory Play / Gayle Austin. Split Britches and the Alcestis Lesson: ("What Is This Albatross?") / Sabrina Hamilton -- 3. Constructing the Text. Wearing Red: When a Rowdy Band of Charismatics Learned to Say "NO!" / Glenda Dickerson |
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Straddling Discourses / Marianne Goldberg. "Broads" Too Tight to Sing / Ann Kilkelly. Directing Stein / Ellen Donkin and Susan Clement -- 4. Rehearsing the Text. "I Wanna Be Great!": How to Rescue the Spirit in the Wasteland of Fame / Andrea Hairston. A New Way to Pay Old Debts: The Playwright Directs Her Own / Joan Schenkar. Codirecting: A Model for Men Directing Feminist Plays / John Lutterbie. Paper Dolls: Playthings That Hurt / Addell Austin Anderson. "No:..but"/"Not-Not-Me": Musings on Cross-Gender Performance / Rhonda Blair. An interview with Amy Gonzalez: "All Ears, to Let My Ideas Transform" / Len Berkman. Aftermath: Surviving the Reviews / Joan Lipkin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
African American theater -- United States.
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African American theater.
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Feminism and theater -- United States.
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Feminist theater -- United States.
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Theater -- Production and direction -- United States.
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Women in the theater -- United States.
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Women in the theater.
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| Author |
Clement, Susan.
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Donkin, Ellen, 1949-
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| LC no. |
92038338 |
| ISBN |
0472065033 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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047209503X (alk. paper) |
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