Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction • Judith Rudakoff
1. “Vital Acts of Transfer”: #MeToo and the Performance of Embodied Knowledge • Shana MacDonald
2. “Bite the Bullet”: The Practice of Protest as a Coping Mechanism • Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga
3. Resisting Theatre: The Political in the Performative • Effie Samara
4. Supporting Brave Spaces for Theatre-Makers Post-#MeToo: A Chicago-Based Study on Rehearsing and Performing Intimacy in Theatre • Susan Fenty Studham
5. We Get It: Calling Out Sexism and Harassment in Australia’s Live Performance Industry • Sarah Thomasson
6. Toward the Origin of Performing #MeToo: Franca Rame’s The Rape as an Example of Personal and Political Theatre/Therapy • Laura Peja and Fausto Colombo
7. The Royal Court in the Wake of #MeToo • Catriona Fallow and Sarah Jane Mullan
8. Dissident Solidarities: Power, Pedagogy, Care • Swati Arora
9. Conversations with Noura: Iraqi American Women and a Response to A Doll’s House • Mary P. Caulfield
10. #MeToo: Theatre Women Share Their Stories • Yvette Heyliger
11. Les Zoubliettes: Raging Through Laughter—a Feminist Disturbance • Sonia Norris
12. “I’m the person to speak about myself”: Self-Declaration, Reversal of Power, and Solidarity in The Red Book • Yuh J. Hwang
Appendix: A Primer on the International #MeToo Movement • Elise A. LaCroix
Notes on Contributors