Languages of Theatre Shaped by Women
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
128 pages
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halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2003
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Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Speaking in Tongues - Making (Sense of) Women’s Languages in Theatre
Part 1 - Re-Shaping Theatre Traditions
1 Seizing Speech and Playing with Fire: Greek Mythological Heroines and International Women’s Performance
Jane de Gay
2 Lear’s Daughters on Stage and in Multimedia and Fiona Shaw’s King Lear Workshops as Case Studies in Breaking the Frame
Lizbeth Goodman
3 Playing (with) Shakespeare: Bryony Lavery’s Ophelia and Jane Prendergast’s I, Hamlet
Jane de Gay
4 Theorizing Practice-Based Research: Performing and Analysing Self in Role as ’I, Hamlet’
Jane Prendergast
Part 2 - Speaking for Themselves: Women Theatre-Makers at Work
5 Transmitting the Voices, Voyages and Visions: Adapting Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse for Radio
Lindsay Bell
6 Voicing Identities, Reframing Difference(s): The Case of Fo(u)r Women
A brief commentary on the text of Fo(u)r Women
Adeola Agbebiyi
Fo(u)r Women
Adeola Agbebiyi, Patience Agbabi and Dorothea Smartt
Part 3 - Practising Theory and Theorizing Practice
7 Scratch in the Record
Leslie Hill
8 One-to-One: Lone Journeys
Helen Paris
9 Mouth Ghosts: The Taste of the Os-Text
Jools Gilson-Ellis
10 Afterword - Shape-Shifters and Hidden Bodies
Jane de Gay
Bibliography and Further Reading
Index
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