Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook by Elaine Aston

By Elaine Aston

Feminist Theatre perform: A Handbook is a worthwhile, functional advisor to theatre-making which explores the various methods of representing gender. Best-selling writer, Elaine Aston, takes the reader in the course of the quite a few levels of creating feminist theatre- from warming up, via workshopped exploration, to functionality - this quantity is organised into 3 transparent and instructive parts:
* girls within the Workshop
* Dramatic Texts, Feminist Contexts
* Gender and Devising Projects.
oriented round the classroom/workshop, Handbook of Feminist Theatre Practice encompasses the most components of feminist theatre, either functional or theoretical.

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