Feminist Theatre and Performance
by Bennett, SusanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-04-01
Publisher(s): Playwrights Canada Pr
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Summary
Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have traced the coming-into-prominence of a vibrant theatrical community in English Canada. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
| General Editor's Preface | p. iii |
| Acknowledgements | p. v |
| Introduction | p. vii |
| Messages in the Wilderness | p. 1 |
| Fear of Feminism | p. 11 |
| The Body as Spectacle: Women's Theatre in Quebec | p. 18 |
| The Company of Sirens: Popular Feminist Theatre in Canada | p. 28 |
| Getting the Message: The NAAGs of Halifax | p. 32 |
| Women's Circle, Women's Theatre | p. 41 |
| Playing Solitaire: Spectatorship and Representation in Canadian Women's Monodrama | p. 51 |
| Naming Names: Black Women Playwrights in Canada | p. 63 |
| Critical Revisions: Ann-Marie MacDonald's Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) | p. 71 |
| Making It Happen: A Commercial Model for Self-Production | p. 80 |
| Diversity and Voice: A Celebration of Canadian Women Writing for Performance | p. 84 |
| A Clash of Symbols: When I Put on What I Want to Put on | p. 98 |
| Collective Creation and the Changing Mandate of Nightwood Theatre | p. 109 |
| A Feminist Absurd: Margaret Hollingsworth's The House That Jack Built | p. 125 |
| Still "Activist" after All These Years? Reflections on Feminism and Activist Theatre, Then and Now | p. 147 |
| Still Acting Out After 25 Years | p. 154 |
| Suggested Further Reading | p. 157 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 160 |
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