Women in American Theatre

by Chinoy, Helen Krich; Jenkins, Linda Walsh; Chinoy, Helen Krich

Edition: Revised

ISBN13: 9781559361804

ISBN10: 1559361808

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2002-12-30

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Summary

In this new edition of Women in American Theatre, the first full scale revision since 1987, the editors have collected a series of interviews and essays that address the contributions of women to theatre, the recurring patterns of their participation and the problems as well as successes they have encountered in developing their careers. Newly revised and expanded, this unique resource challenges preconceptions by exploring and celebrating the heritage of women in American theatre. This volume covers the complete spectrum of women's contributions to the field, beginning with a chapter on such female rites as beauty pageants and native American performance. Other sections cover such topics as actresses, playwrights, nontraditional women's careers and feminist theatres. A new section entitled "Shattering the Glass Proscenium," assembled for this edition, looks at the women working in the field now, whose contributions continue to define the cutting edge of theatre today.Contributors include:Martha Boesing Anne Bogart Jill Dolan Elin Diamond Cherrie Moraga Pearl Cleage Marjorie Kellog Paula Vogel Kristin Linklater Tina Packer Alisa Solomon Deb Margolin Eve Ensler Robbie McCauley Julia Miles Glenda Dickerson Sydne Mahone Roberta Sklar Megan Terry Barbara Ann Teer Wendy Wasserstein Maria Irene Fornes Suzan-Lori Parks Margaret Edson Lois Weaver and others.

Interrogating the past, or women in theatre - then and now : a preface
Theatre, activism and personal change : a preface
Art versus business : the challenge of women in American theatre : an introduction
Female rites	p. 3
Sex roles and shamans	p. 5
Trampling out the vintage	p. 11
Friendship and ritual in the WTUL	p. 17
Rites and rights	p. 21
Crowning Miss California, again	p. 25
Take back the night	p. 32
Ritual and the national Black theatre	p. 34
The story of a mother, a ritual drama	p. 35
"Lesson I bleed" : Adrienne Kennedy's blood rites	p. 42
The actress	p. 49
Anne Brunton Merry : first star	p. 52
Enter the Harlot	p. 57
Women in male roles : Charlotte Cushman and others	p. 65
Adah Isaacs Menken in Mazeppa	p. 72
Lydia Thompson and the "British Blondes"	p. 78
Horrible prettiness : a cultural analysis of "British Blondes"	p. 80
Henrietta Vinton Davis : Shakespearean actress	p. 83
Mary Shaw : a fighting champion	p. 88
Aileen Stanley, her life and times	p. 97
Women mimes in America	p. 100
The art of Ruth Draper	p. 103
Uta Hagen and Eva Le Gallienne	p. 109
Alvina Krause on women in theatre	p. 113
Alvina Krause - a teacher of life	p. 114
Acting female	p. 115
Here are the women playwrights	p. 118
Mercy Warren : satirist of the revolution	p. 122
Looking to women : Rachel Crothers and the feminist heroine	p. 128
Apropos of women and the folk play	p. 135
Anne Nichols : $1,000,000.00 playwright	p. 142
Sophie Treadwell : agent for change	p. 147
Gertrude Stein : form and content	p. 152
The comic muse of Mary Chase	p. 155
Lillian Hellman talks about women : interviews	p. 162
Lorraine Hansberry : artist, activist, feminist	p. 168
Women alone, women together	p. 173
If not an actress, what? ...	p. 179
Women open Augusta's first theatre	p. 183
Art theatre in hull-house	p. 187
Women directors - the early years	p. 192
Hallie Flanagan : practical visionary	p. 194
Talent and the times	p. 199
Matriarchs of the regional theatre	p. 203
Peggy Clark Kelley : reminiscences of a "designing" woman	p. 209
The lady is a critic	p. 215
Casting by Juliet Taylor : an interview	p. 222
Images	p. 226
The second face of the idol : women in Melodrama	p. 228
Women in Pulitzer prize plays, 1918-1949	p. 233
The women's world of Glaspell's trifles	p. 240
Black women in plays by black playwrights	p. 243
Who put the "tragic" in the tragic mulatto?	p. 249
Creative drama : sex-role stereotyping?	p. 254
Female protagonists in the plays of Suzan Zeder	p. 259
Feminist theatre	p. 265
Feminist theatre : a rhetorical phenomenon	p. 267
Caravan theatre	p. 275
Omaha magic theatre	p. 277
The Washington area feminist theatre	p. 279
Women's interart theatre	p. 282
New York feminist theatre troupe	p. 284
The lavender cellar theatre	p. 287
At the foot of the mountain	p. 290
Spiderwoman	p. 291
The women's experimental theatre	p. 293
Rebeccah : rehearsal notes	p. 296
Split britches	p. 298
Fefu and her friends	p. 302
A rainbow of voices	p. 304
Feminism and political theatre	p. 308
Process and problems	p. 313
Reflections	p. 317
Staging women's experience : feminist theatres in the USA	p. 322
Changes and legacies	p. 325
Feminist theatrical theories	p. 328
A feminist theory of theatre : introduction	p. 336
Semiotics and the gaze : toward a new poetics	p. 340
The discourse of feminisms : the spectator and representation	p. 343
Toward a gestic feminist criticism	p. 349
Feminism and psychoanalysis	p. 356
Women, woman and the subject of feminism : feminist directions	p. 357
"Not ... but"/"not-not-me" : musings on cross-gender performance	p. 361
Focus on the body : pain, praxis and pleasure in feminist performance	p. 363
Critique of postmodern theory, conclusion : 1990s and beyond	p. 364
About face : performing race in fashion and theatre	p. 367
Under the "trickster's" sign : toward a reading of Ntozake Shange	p. 369
Voices at the millennium	p. 375
The "colored girls phenomenon"	p. 378
Finding place and voice as a Chicana lesbian	p. 379
Fast-talking, quick-thinking black women	p. 380
The Asian American spectator and the politics of realism	p. 381
"So much more than just myself" : women theatre artists in the south	p. 383
The challenges of diversity : questions and complications	p. 385
Eve's version	p. 388
I see Messiah	p. 390
Karen Finley : a constant state of becoming : an interview	p. 392
Annie Sprinkle : dialectical image	p. 394
A woman's perspective on Shakespeare	p. 398
In the company of women : Carol Gilligan and Kristin Linklater collaborate to free women's voices	p. 400
Mabou Mines' Ruth Maleczech plays Lear	p. 402
Strategies for subverting the canon	p. 404
Lois Weaver on feminist acting : an interview	p. 408
The triune voice	p. 410
Anne Bogart - viewpoints : an interview	p. 412
From Ruby Dee's memory book	p. 415
Joanne Woodward : changing people's minds	p. 418
The integrity of Estelle Parsons	p. 420
I love heroines : Cherry Jones	p. 422
Theatre role models	p. 424
Kathleen Chalfant : creative life and death	p. 426
Where do plays come from? : (a conference of women playwrights)	p. 429
White gloves or bare hands	p. 432
Politically incorrect : Paula Vogel : an interview	p. 435
Margaret Edson : kindergarten is where it happens	p. 438
We are not only ourselves : Naomi Wallace : in conversation	p. 440
Why I write for television	p. 443
Women at the Helm	p. 447
Maria Irene Fornes : the playwright as director : an interview	p. 454
Elizabeth LeCompte	p. 456
Julie Taymor : a woman in charge	p. 458
Top girls	p. 460
When designers gather	p. 463
Marjorie Kellogg : collaboration	p. 464
Pat Zipprodt : visualize	p. 465
Patrizia von Brandenstein : film	p. 466
Pat Collins : technology	p. 467
Jean Rosenthal's light : making visible the magician	p. 468
Re-visioning scenography : a feminist's approach to design for the theatre	p. 471
Jane Alexander : she stoops to conquer	p. 474
1998 : year of the woman?	p. 475
Having her say : Emily Mann : an interview	p. 480
Sharing the work	p. 482
Anna Deavere Smith's House arrest	p. 484
Viewpoints on theatre now	p. 487
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