Languages of Theatre Shaped by Women

Front Cover......Page 1
Preliminaries......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
List of Illustrations......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Introduction: Speaking in Tongues – Making (Sense of) Women’s Languages in Theatre......Page 10
1 Seizing Speech and Playing with Fire: Greek Mythological Heroines and International Women’s Performance......Page 20
2 Lear’s Daughters on Stage and in Multimedia and Fiona Shaw’s King Lear Workshops as Case Studies in Breaking the Frame......Page 46
3 Playing (with) Shakespeare: Bryony Lavery’s Ophelia and Jane Prendergast’s I, Hamlet......Page 58
4 Theorizing Practice-Based Research: Performing and Analysing Self in Role as ‘I, Hamlet’......Page 74
5 Transmitting the Voices, Voyages and Visions: Adapting Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse for Radio......Page 82
6 Voicing Identities, Reframing Difference(s): The Case of Fo(u)r Women......Page 98
Fo(u)r Women......Page 108
7 Scratch in the Record......Page 134
8 One-to-One: Lone Journeys......Page 146
9 Mouth Ghosts: The Taste of the Os-Text......Page 162
Afterword – Shape-Shifters and Hidden Bodies......Page 186
Bibliography and Further Reading......Page 190
Index......Page 198
Back Cover......Page 202