Performing Women

Name: Performing Women
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Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the twentieth-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 desire to perform. Oddey's critical introductory and concluding chapters analyze both historical and cultural contexts and explore themes arising from the interviews. These include sense of identity, acting as playing (recapturing and revisiting childhood), displacement of roots, performing, motherhood and 'being', performing comedy, differences between theatre, film and television performance, attitudes towards and relationships with audiences, and working with directors. The prominent subtext of motherhood reveals a consciousness of split subjectives with and beyond performance. This new edition of the book includes three new interviews with actresses, and is useful primary resource material for undergraduate students on performance studies courses.

Author Biography:

ALISON ODDEY, Performer, Writer, Broadcaster and Teacher, is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Loughborough University, UK. She was appointed Chair in Contemporary Performance in 2000, and her publications include Devising Theatre (Routledge, 1994) and Performing Women (first edition published 1999) as well as a forthcoming book, Shifting Directions: A New Kind of Theatre-Making in the Twenty-First Century (MUP, 2005). Her research focuses on contemporary experimental performance, exploring cross-art forms, creation and collaboration in relation to the notion of directing such work in the context of performing, visual, sonic, virtual and multi-media arts. Alison has also presented a series on BBC Radio 4, 'Stand-ups and Strumpets', as a consequence of the publication of the first edition of Performing Women.

Release date NZ

September 30th, 2005

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Undergraduate

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Edited by Alison Oddey

Edition

2nd ed. 2005

Illustrations

XVIII, 347 p.

Pages

347

Dimensions

140x216x19

ISBN-13

9781403948779

Product ID

1649696

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