Rage And Reason - Women Playwrights on Playwriting

Women playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama.Twenty leading contemporary dramatists discuss their work from the perspective of being both writers and women. Each talks about the state of the theatre now, the craft of playwrighting, and the pressures of working within a male dominated environment. The book also features Sarah Kane''s very last public interview. ''What I think is so exciting about the response to a number of the plays written by women in the last ten years is that they are popular with audiences - because they''ve got this quality, this energy and this culture that hasn''t been seen much on stage before: a humour, sexiness and wit that''s been missing'' - Charlotte Keatley>

Product details

• Authors: Heidi Stephenson, Heidi Langridge Stephenson
• Assisted by: Heidi Stephenson (Editor)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.1997
• EAN: 9780413716002
• ISBN: 978-0-413-71600-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Methuen Drama Modern Plays; Methuen Drama Modern Plays; Plays and Playwrights
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights