Performance practice and process : contemporary (women) practitioners / Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris.
By: Aston, Elaine
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Contributor(s): Harris, Geraldine (Geraldine Mary).
Material type: 
BookPublisher: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Description: ix, 194 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9780230001541 (hbk.); 0230001548 (hbk.); 0230001556 (pbk.); 9780230001558 (pbk.).Subject(s): Women in the theater | Feminist theater | Women performance artists | Performance artDDC classification: 792.082
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 792.082 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00194786 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Drawing on hands-on experience from workshops and interviews, this innovative book explores the work of eight gender aware theatre and performance artists and companies. The authors offer rare insights into the processes as well as the practice of these artists and employ an 'inside', practical approach to understanding their ground-breaking work
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. viii)
- Acknowledgements (p. ix)
- 1 Performance Practice and Process (p. 1)
- 2 A Passionate Desire to Communicate (p. 20)
- 3 Being Curious (p. 41)
- 4 Speaking Out (p. 59)
- 5 Women Writing for Radio (p. 80)
- 6 Imagining, Making, Changing (p. 100)
- 7 Giving Voice(s) to Others (p. 119)
- 8 Performance Storytelling (p. 139)
- 9 Lessons in Bad Behaviour (p. 159)
- 10 After the Event (p. 177)
- Index (p. 185)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
ELAINE ASTON is a senior lecturer of Contemporary Performance at Lancaster University, UK where she teaches and researches feminist theatre, theory and performance, a field in which she is widely published. Her authored studies include An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre (1994); Caryl Churchill (1997/ 2001); Feminist Theatre Practice (1999) and Feminist Views on the English Stage (2003). She has co-edited four volumes of plays by women and, with Janelle Reinelt, co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights (2000).
GERALDINE HARRIS is a senior lecturer in Theatre Studies at Lancaster University, UK, where she teaches and researches on gender and identity in performance. She has just finished writing a book entitled Beyond Representation, Aesthetics and Politics in Television Drama for Manchester University Press. She has also published numerous articles and book chapters on the work of female performance practitioners and a monograph Staging Femininities (Manchester University Press, 1999). Since the 1980s she has also been closely engaged with the practice of devising and wth writing texts for performance, both with students and with professional companies such as Insomniac and Third Angel.