Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women

Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women

The Early Twenty-First Century

Farfan, Penny; Ferris, Lesley

The University of Michigan Press

07/2021

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Inglês

9780472074358

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Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Critical Visions
Penny Farfan

I. Replaying the Canon
1. Feminist Adaptations / Adaptations of Feminism: Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad
Penny Farfan
2. Indigenizing the Colonial Narrative: Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife
Denise Varney
3. Does Revenge Fall Softly? Yael Farber's Molora
Catherine Cole
4. Indecent Collaborations and / in Queer Time(s)
Katie N. Johnson and Sara L. Warner
II. Representing Histories
5. The Bloodstained Distance: Adrienne Kennedy's He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box
Alisa Solomon
6. Unmaking a Devil's Bargain: Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars and the Idea of America
Soyica Diggs Colbert and Robert J. Patterson
7. "A Change Is Gonna Come?" Protest and Racial Progress in debbie tucker green's ear for eye
Lynette Goddard
8. Maternal Agency and Reproductive Justice in Lisa Loomer's Roe
Sharon L. Green
III. Staging Lives
9. The Mythic Migrant, the Witnessing Self: Helene Cixous and Le Dernier Caravanserail: Odyssees
Emine Fisek
10. Exceptional Embodiment in Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy
Ryan Claycomb
11. Acting and Reenacting the Malvinas/Falklands War in Lola Arias's Minefield/Campo minado
Paola S. Hernandez
12. Fun Home: Lesbian Feminism Meets Broadway Musical Theatre
Stacy Wolf
IV. Re-imagining Family
13. A 'rock inside the flesh': Motherwork in Marie Clements's The Unnatural and Accidental Women
Karen Bamford and Sheila Rabillard
14. Quiara Hudes's Water by the Spoonful and the Dramaturgy of Free Jazz
Natalie Alvarez and Jimena Ortuzar
15. British Muslim Feminism and the Marriage Trap: Alia Bano's Shades
Meenakshi Ponnuswami
16. Lesbian Interspecies Performance: Holly Hughes's The Dog and Pony Show (bring your own pony)
Kim Marra
V. Navigating Communities
17. Bread of Life: Whiti Hereaka's Rewena
Diana Looser
18. Transcultural Memory and Food in Julia Cho's Aubergine
Esther Kim Lee
19. Truth and Absurdity on the London Stage: Liwaa Yazji's Goats and its Audiences Margaret Litvin with Liwaa Yazji
20. "I Will Tend Your Garden": The Terms of Proximity in Grace Passo's Por Elise
Honey Crawford
VI. Articulating Intersections
21. Dominique Morisseau's Blood at the Root: Intersectionality and the Jena Six
Juliet Guzzetta
22. Economic Disenfranchisement and Gender Inequality in Emma Dante's mPalermu
Francesca Spedalieri
23. The Magic of Change: Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's The World of Extreme Happiness
Xing Fan
24. "But nostalgia's a disease": Viewing Lynn Nottage's Sweat in the Age of Trump
Courtney Elkin Mohler
VII. New World Order(s)
25. Miss Piggy the Seer in the Land of Trump's Blind: Elfriede Jelinek's On the Royal Road: The Burgher King
Sue-Ellen Case
26. Has She "Escaped Alone" to Tell Us? Caryl Churchill: 'Messenger' for the Twenty-First Century
Rosemary Malague
27. Climate Change and the Capitalocene in Colleen Murphy's The Breathing Hole
Wendy Arons
28. The Ghosts of Greenham Common in Lucy Kirkwood's The Children
Lesley Ferris

Afterwords: Emerging Currents: Fighting on Two Fronts
Lesley Ferris

Notes on Contributors
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women playwrights;contemporary drama;dramatic literature;feminist theatre;women and theatre;dramatic theory and criticism;critical perspectives on contemporary drama;twenty-first-century drama;international women's playwriting;dramaturgy;Replaying the Canon;Representing Histories;Staging Lives;Re-imagining Family;Navigating Communities;Articulating Intersections;New World Orders;Margaret Atwood;Leah Purcell;Paula Vogel;Adrienne Kennedy;Suzan-Lori Parks;debbie tucker green;Lisa Loomer;Helene Cixous;Anna Deavere Smith;Lola Arias;Lisa Kron;Jeanine Tesori;Alison Bechdel;Marie Clements;Quiara Alegria Hudes;Alia Bano;Holly Hughes;Whiti Hereaka;Julia Cho;Liwaa Yazji;Grace Passo;Dominique Morisseau;Emma Dante;Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig;Lynn Nottage;Elfriede Jelinek;Caryl Churchill;Colleen Murphy;Lucy Kirkwood