Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook

<p><em>Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook</em> 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:<br> * Women in the Workshop<br> * Dramatic Texts, Feminist Contexts<br> * Gender and Devising Projects.<br> Orientated around the classroom/workshop, <em>Handbook of Feminist Theatre Practice</em> encompasses the main elements of feminist theatre, both practical or theoretical.</p> List of illustrations, Acknowledgements, Prologue: handing on ideas, 1 Introduction: ‘stages’ in feminist theory and practice, PART I Women in the workshop, PART II Dramatic texts, feminist contexts, PART III Gender and devising projects, Appendix: to make your ‘self’, Glossary