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Re: producing women's dramatic history : the politics of playing in Toronto
- Title
- Re: producing women's dramatic history : the politics of playing in Toronto / D.A. Hadfield.
- Author
- Hadfield, D. A.
- Publication
- Vancouver : Talonbooks, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- 288 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Within the last generation. Canadian drama, like other literary forms, has seen the emergence of works by women that re-vision the role of women in history. However, in order to write themselves into theatre history, women have had to negotiate a complex journey through both pages and stages, a network of public production that is highly politically charged at every turn. This book examines the strategies employed by seven feminist productions that have managed to achieve a canonic place in the recorded history of Canadian theatre."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- The new Canadian criticism series
- Uniform Title
- New Canadian criticism series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-279) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Women's history : pages and stages -- Exit : history -- Performing histories : stage one -- Performing histories : stage two -- Getting on with the show -- 2. Producing possibilities for feminist theatre -- Developing policy and production in Canada -- Beginning with the word -- Collective creation -- Who could do such a thing? -- 3. Dead centre : Judith Thompson takes on Shaw and Ibsen -- Feminist central? -- The court house trials -- Critical verdicts -- Inadmissible evidence -- Epilogue : reviving Hedda Gabler -- 4. Sally into the centre : is seeing believing? -- How do you spell "success"? -- Wanted : single white feminist -- Re : playing history -- Playing with(out) success -- Trials and verdicts at the Canadian stage -- Playing the stakes -- In-credible instruction -- Reading history -- 5. Crossing over, or, reading anger in the margin -- Reading across contexts -- Writing the history of mixed blood : the book of Jessica -- In search of ceremony -- Transforming theatrical history -- This is (no place) for you, Anna -- Producing no place on the page -- Reproducing no place on stage and page -- Of supplements -- 6. Re : visions of history -- A good night for feminist theatre -- Remainders.
- ISBN
- 9780889225633 (pbk.)
- 088922563X (pbk.)
- OCLC
- ocm77046069
- 77046069
- SCSB-5328969
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries