Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook By Elaine Aston

Taylor & Francis

A practical guide to theatre-making designed to take the reader through the stages of making feminist theatre. Organised into three instructive parts; Women in the Workshop, Dramatic Texts, Feminist Contexts & Gender and Devising Projects. > \nFeminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook 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:\n * Women in the Workshop\n * Dramatic Texts, Feminist Contexts\n * Gender and Devising Projects.\n Orientated around the classroom/workshop, Handbook of Feminist Theatre Practice encompasses the main elements of feminist theatre, both practical or theoretical. > List of illustrations, Acknowledgements, Prologue: handing on ideas, 1 Introduction: \u2018stagesy