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This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance.
List of contents
List of FiguresList of InterviewsAcknowledgementsIntroduction0.1 Storytelling as Professional Performance
0.2 Female Artists as Storytellers
0.3 Talking to Storytellers
0.4 Storytelling Presences
Chapter 1 - Storytelling Presences1.1 Sarah Rundle,
The Poorest Hee (2013)
1.2 Clare Murphy,
The Nine Muses of Queen's Crescent (2022)
1.3 Jo Blake,
Blodeuwedd Untold (2018)
1.4 Summary: Contemporary Presences
Chapter 2 - Storytelling Authorship2.1 Alys Torrance,
Up Endings! (2021)
2.2 Rachel Rose Reid,
Silence (2018)
2.3 Mara Menzies,
Blood and Gold (2019)
2.4 Summary: Authoring Storytelling Performances
Chapter 3 - Devising Storytelling3.1 Sarah Liisa Wilkinson,
The Girl and The Snake Witch (2018)
3.2 Alys Torrance,
Stoopid (2019)
3.3 Debs Newbold
, Outrageous Fortune (2020)
3.4 Summary: Devising New Storytellings
Chapter 4 - Aural Storytelling4.1 Sarah Liisa Wilkinson,
The Devil's Violin (2019)
4.2 Laura Sampson,
Three-Crossing River (2022)
4.3 Debs Newbold,
Lost in Blue (2022)
4.4 Summary: Aurality and Story Performance
Chapter 5 - Sites of Storytelling5.1 Tamar Eluned Williams,
Pathways/Llwybrau (2020)
5.2 Vanessa Woolf,
Trees (2021) and
Ghosts of the Thames (2020)
5.3 Tim Ralphs and Sarah Liisa Wilkinson,
The Game of Seven Candles (2021)
5.4 Summary: Sites of Storytelling
Chapter 6 - Story-Performance in New Media6.1 Mara Menzies,
The Giver of Joy (2021)
6.2 Jo Blake,
What Do You See With Your Eye to the Keyhole? (2020)
6.3 Xanthe Gresham-Knight,
Kitchen Goddess (2020)
6.4 Summary: Story, Media, and Emergent Spaces
Chapter 7 - Story-Performance and Social Practice7.1 Rachel Rose Reid,
Sofa Story Club (2020)
7.2 Xanthe Gresham-Knight,
Goddess Lounge (2020-21)
7.3 Pyn Stockman,
Tell It To The Bees (2022)
7.4 Summary: Making Social Rituals
Chapter 8 - Storytelling and Slam8.1 Clare Murphy,
Myth Off (2011)
8.2 Lucy Lill & Alys Torrance,
Women Who Gave No F**ks (2019)
8.3 Summary: Story, Slam, and Inventing Traditions
Conclusion9.1 Sally Pomme Clayton,
The Frog Princess Punked (2019)
9.2 Contemporary Storytelling Performance
Index
About the author
Stephe Harrop is Associate Professor of Drama at Liverpool Hope University. She is also a contemporary storyteller, creating and touring work across the UK and beyond.
Summary
This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance.
