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Informationen zum Autor Maggie B. Gale is Professor and Chair in Drama at The University of Manchester Maggie B. Gale is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham Viv Gardner is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Manchester Klappentext This book looks at how a range of women in the theatre - actors, managers, writers and live artists - have used, and still use, autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves on the page and on the stage from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Zusammenfassung This book looks at how a range of women in the theatre - actors, managers, writers and live artists - have used, and still use, autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves on the page and on the stage from the late eighteenth century to the present day. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsNotes on contributorsIntroduction - Women, theatre and performance: Auto/biography and performance - Maggie B. Gale & Viv GardnerPart 1: Telling tales: Autobiographic strategies1. The three nobodies: Autobiographical strategies in the work of Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion and Ina Rozant - Viv Gardner2. The disappearing subject in Susan Glaspell's auto/biographical theatre - Nicola ShaugnessyImag(in)ing a life: Adrienne Kennedy's 'People Who Led to My Plays' and 'Deadly Triplets' - Elaine AstonPart 2: The professional/confessional self3. The way to the world: Emma Robinson and the dilemmas of identity - Susan Croft4. Lena Ashwell and auto/biographical negotiations of the professional self - Maggie B. Gale5. Tilly Wedekind and Lulu: The role of her life or the role in her life? - Bella Merlin6. Troubling identities: Claire Dowie's 'Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?' - Gabriele GriffinPart 3: Auto/biography. Identity and performance7. Latina theatre and performance: Acts of exposure - Caridad Svich8. Being her: presence, absence and performance in the art of Janet Cardiff and Tracy Emin - Jen Harvie 9. Peforming lesbians: Constructing the self, constructing the community - Dee Heddon10. Re(ci)petoires of the self: Autobiographical aspects of Bobby Baker's performance works. Bobby Baker interview - Catharine Maclean Hopkins...
