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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