Theatre Theory books - Feminist Theatre books

Frangipani Perfume & Mapaki

Makerita Urale & Dianna Fuemana

The Play Press

4 Male 3 Female

Frangipani Perfume ... "Imagine Chekhov's Three Sisters bathed in the Pacific and coconut-milked for all its sensual worth ... a hothouse of sensual theatrical arousal" ~ Capital Times Mapaki ... " ... ...

$14.99

Women's Project & Productions - Rowing to America and Sixteen Other Short Plays

Julia Miles - editor

Smith & Kraus

Founded in 1978 by Artistic Director Julia Miles, Women's Project & Productions places women playwrights at center stage

$24.99

The Patriarchy of Shakespeare's Comedies

Marilyn L Williamson - HARDBACK

Continuum

$54.95

Rage and Reason - Women Playwrights on Playwriting

Heidi Stephenson & Natasha Langridge

Methuen

Twenty contemporary female dramatists discuss their work, their personal views about the state of theatre today, the struggle of playwrights to get their work produced, and the difficulties of writing as ...

$21.99

Playing With Ideas - Australian Women Playwrights From The Suffragettes To The Sixties

Susan Pfisterer

Currency Press

The extraordinary contribution of Australian women to the development of early feminist theatre has never been fully recognisedIn Playing With Ideas, Susan Pfisterer and Carolyn Pickett reveal a dynamic fema...

$23.99

Converging Realities - Feminism in Australian Theatre

Peta Tait

Currency Press

This looks at the work of women theatre practitioners who express feminist ideas through their use of form Peta Tait identifies how women's work in comic and physical styles, performed in unusual spaces, n...

$34.99

Women in American Theatre

Helen Krich Chinoy & Linda Walsh Jenkins

Theatre Communications

A valuable collection of interviews and essays that explores and celebrates the complete spectrum of women's contributions to the theatre world in the US This revised and expanded Third Edition addresses th...

$19.99

Saga of the Wet Hens

Jovette Marchessault

Talon Books

0 Male 4 Female

Four Quebec women writers meet at the centre of a fabulous vortex where they perform six Tableaux - Sisters in Slumber & Henpecking the Hens & The Pelt of Urs Major & The Night the Women Looked...

$19.99

The Misandrist

Jean Betts

The Play Press

3 Male 5 Female

A fairy tale wrapped around three Mysteries. four Comedies, a Lecture, two Appalling Tragedies, two Therapies, two school essays on Shakespeare - and a Love Story " ... angry and funny energy ... there are...

$14.99

The Fighting Days

Wendy Lill

Talon Books

1 Male 3 Female

Set in Winnipeg during 1910-1917 this play presents the polarities of public and private lives, and issues of racism and pacifism in the suffragette movement It focusses on the life and work of Francis M...

$16.99

Life Without Instruction

Sally Clark

Talon Books

5 Male 3 Female

Based on a true story and a real trial, this presents a woman's struggle for freedom, identity and dignity Artemisia Fentileshi's father, the late-Renaissance painter Orazio Gentileschi, takes the unusua...

$19.99

Shudder & Fold

Pippa Hall & Jo Randerson

The Play Press

7 Male 3 Female

Shudder ... " ... an exceptional play, a story of people living on the edge ... Under Milk Wood on acid" ~ Capital Times Fold ... Based around a series of five birthday parties, Fold follows the conversat...

$14.99

Mythic Women & Real Women

Lizbeth Goodman - ed

Faber & Faber

This wide-ranging international collection of plays and performance pieces by women includes work by Caryl Churchill, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Sarah Daniels, Jackie Kay, Jamaica Kincaid and Elaine Feinstein ...

$24.99

The Wind Cries Mary

Philip Kan Gotanda

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

Loosely based on Hedda Gabler, this is set on a college campus in the late '60s. Amidst the turbulent anti-war demonstrations and beginnings of Asian-American identity politics, we follow an extraordinary...

$13

Top Girls - METHUEN EDITION

Caryl Churchill

Methuen

0 Male 7 Female

Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of Top Girls employment agency Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the...

$15.99

Swive [Elizabeth]

Ella Hickson

Nick Hern Books

2 Male 2 Female

"My mother seduced a man so successfully that he altered the constitutional history of this country" Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman to have ever ruled England And she reigned for forty-four years ...

$14.99

The Welkin

Lucy Kirkwood

Nick Hern Books

Rural Suffolk, 1759 As the country waits for the return of Halley's Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from thei...

$14.99

Teaching Playwriting - Creativity in Practice

Paul Gardiner

Methuen

Playwriting is a skill under-explored in the classroom, despite the strong evidence that it's an engaging and rewarding activity for young people Teaching Playwriting addresses this gap and is an essential ...

$32.95

Contemporary Women Stage Directors - Conversations on Craft

Paulette Marty

Methuen

Contemporary Women Stage Directors opens the door into the minds of 27 prolific female theatre directors, allowing you to explore their experience, wisdom and knowledge Directors give insight into their div...

$27.99

Directing Professionally

Kent Thompson

Methuen

Subtitled A Practical Guide to Developing a Successful Career in Today's Theatre, this volume will equip you to develop your career as a professional director in today's theatre It features a host of insig...

$26.99