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Theatre and autobiography : writing and performing lives in theory and practice / edited by Sherrill Grace & Jerry Wasserman.

Title: Theatre and autobiography : writing and performing lives in theory and practice / edited by Sherrill Grace & Jerry Wasserman.
Publication: Vancouver, B.C. : Talonbooks, c2006.

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352 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

Theatre and the AutoBiographical Pact: An Introduction / Sherrill Grace 13 -- Part 1 Theorizing AutoBiographical Theatre -- 3-D A/B / Susan Bennett 33 -- Documemory, Autobiology, and the Utopian Performative in Canadian Autobiographical Solo Performance / Ric Knowles 49 -- Theorizing the Gendered Space of Auto/Biographical Performance via Samuel Beckett and Hans Bellmer / Richard J. Lane 72 -- (Un)Covering the Mirror: Performative Reflections in Linda Griffiths's Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen and Wendy Lill's The Occupation of Heather Rose / Katherine McLeod 89 -- Part 2 AutoBiographical Plays: Stage, Page, or Real Life? -- Tremblay's Impromptus As Process-driven A/B / Louis Patrick Leroux 107 -- The Shape of a Life: Constructing "Self" and "Other" in Joan MacLeod's The Shape of a Girl and Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef's A Line in the Sand / Joanne Tompkins 124 -- Resonant Lives: The Dramatic Self-Portraiture of Vincent and Emily / Anne Nothof 137 -- Auto/Biography and Re/Vision: Betty lambert's Under the Skin / Cynthia Zimmerman 152 -- A Ship of Fools in the Feminine: Six Characters in Search of Self / Louise Forsyth 167 -- Part 3 Theatre Lives: From Autobiography to Biography -- Autobiography, Gender, and Theatre Histories: Spectrums of Reading British Actresses' Autobiographies from the 1920s and 1930s / Maggie B. Gale 185 -- Untold Stories: [Re]Searching for Canadian Actresses' Lives / Paula Sperdakos 202 -- Totem Theatre: AutoBiography of a Company / Denis Johnston 225 -- David Mamet: Life Without an Archive / Ira Nadel 249 -- Behind the Scenes: Irish Theatre, Irish Lives, and the Task of the Biographer / Ann Saddlemyer 261 -- Sharon Pollock's Doc and the Biographer's Dilemma / Sherrill Grace 275 -- Part 4 Creating AutoBiography on Stage -- Writing and Performing Lives: Ten Playwrights Speak / Jerry Wasserman 291 -- Playwright: Parasite or Symbiont / Sharon Pollock 295 -- I Am a Thief ... Not Necessarily Honourable Either / Linda Griffiths 301 -- Fact Does Not Interest Me Near As Much As Fantasy / Tomson Highway 306 -- The Malcolm X School of Playwriting / Lorena Gale 309 -- How in Hell Did She Do It? / Joy Coghill 313 -- I'm Not God's Gift to Black People / Andrew Moodie 317 -- I Always Stick to Facts / Sally Clark 321 -- Never Not Narrative / R.H. Thomson 324 -- In the End You Are Made Accountable / Marie Clements 329 -- Blahblahblahblah Mememememe Theatreschmeatre / Guillermo Verdecchia 332.

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0889225400 :

OCLC

62087217

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Harvard Library