Staging International Feminisms (Studies in International Performance)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 9
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 11
Notes on the Contributors......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 20
Part I: Cartographies......Page 26
2 Bloody Aprons: Suzan-Lori Parks, Deborah Warner and Feminist Performance in the Age of Globalisation......Page 28
3 Mind Yourself: On Soundwalking, Race and Gender......Page 42
4 Globalising Neoliberalism, Travelling Feminisms: Pollesch@Prater......Page 56
5 The Queer Globe Itself......Page 71
Part II: Interventions......Page 84
6 Actress Stories: Binodini and Amal Allana......Page 86
7 Stockholm Interventions: Feminist Activist Performance......Page 95
8 Women’s Writing for Performance Project: ‘Making’ a Feminist Intervention......Page 105
9 Reconstructing a Diasporic Female Self in O Kyong-Sook’s Dictee – A Speaking Woman......Page 114
10 Giving Back to Judith: Laura Curino’s Una stanza tutta per me/A Room of My Own......Page 123
11 Anticipating Globalisation: Rosamond Gilder and the International Theatre Institute......Page 132
12 Exile and the Elusive Qualities of Time......Page 140
13 Cultural Memory in El Séptimo Cielo: An Intercultural Staging of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine......Page 151
14 Stretching Medea to Postmodern Sensibilities......Page 159
15 A Journey towards Sensitisation and Empowerment: Feminist Performance and Intervention Theatre in the City of Jaipur......Page 170
16 The Demon’s Nuns: Petrona de la Cruz Cruz and Isabel Juárez Espinosa (Mexico)......Page 180
Part III: Manifestos......Page 188
17 Reflection on the Work that is Being Done within FOMMA with Respect to Women, Gender and Patriarchy, Change, New Generations and New Technologies......Page 190
18 MAKE SOMETHING: A Manifesto for Making Performance about Making Change......Page 193
19 Pakistani Muslim Theatre at Home and Abroad: A Critical Manifesto for a Feminist Homecoming......Page 203
20 Reflections on My Literary Performance Theatre: A Manifesto for Nigerian Women......Page 213
21 A Manifesto for an Israeli She Monster......Page 222
22 Feminist Performance and Utopia: A Manifesto......Page 231
Bibliography......Page 242