Performing Women
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-71394-5 (ISBN)
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Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women, span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the 20th century, telling various stories collectively. Stand ups, "classic" actresses, film and television personalities, experimental and "alternative" practitioners discuss why they want to perform, what motivates them, and how their personal history has contributed to their desires to perform. Oddey's critical and analytical introductory essay examines themes of performers' identities, displacement, acting as playing, differences between theatre, film and television performance, attitudes towards and relationships with audiences, and working with women directors. In several interviews the additional challenge of motherhood emerges as an important subtext in the performing lives of these women.
ALISON ODDEY is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Kent. She has published articles on devising, performance and teaching, including recent chapter contributions to The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance, 1998, In the Beginning...the making of theatrical space. She has published Devising Theatre, and is currently researching and writing her third book, Different Directions; Women Directors in the Twentieth Century Theatre, with Dr Nichola Shaughnessy. She has professional experience as an actor/deviser, and is External Examiner for the MA in Feminist Performance at Bristol University.
List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Acronyms - PART I - Performing Women: An Introduction - Historical and Cultural Contexts - Why Perform?: Themes Arising - PART II: STAND-UP, STRUMPETS AND ITINERANTS - Jenny ...clair - Niamh Cusack - Imogen Stubbs - Josette Simon - Meera Syal - Jane Horrocks - Kathy Burke - Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Heather Ackroyd - PART III: STAND-UP, STRUMPETS AND ITINERANTS - Jo Brand - Imelda Staunton - Juliet Stevenson - Kathryn Hunter - Fiona Shaw - Dawn French - Miranda Richardson - PART IV: STAND-UP, STRUMPETS AND ITINERANTS - Victoria Wood - Penelope Wilson - June Whitfield - Sheila Hancock - Branda Blethyn - Alison Steadman - Julie Walters - Bobby Baker - Selected Bibliography - Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.8.1999 |
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| Zusatzinfo | photographs, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 733 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-333-71394-X / 033371394X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-333-71394-5 / 9780333713945 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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