Description
This introduction to the staging of genders and sexualities across world theatre sets out a broad view of the subject by featuring plays and performance artists that shifted the conversation in their cultural, social, and historical moments.
Designed for weekly use in theatre studies, dramatic literature, or gender and performance studies courses, these ten milestones highlight women and writers of the global majority, supporting and amplifying voices that are key to the field and some that have typically been overlooked. From Paula Vogel, Split Britches, and Young Jean Lee to Werewere Liking, Mahesh Dattani, Yvette Nolan, and more, the chapters place artists’ key works into conversation with one another, structurally offering an intersectional perspective on staging genders and sexualities.
Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Emily A. Rollie
1. The Enduring Legacy of Ntozake Shange and Adrienne Kennedy
Martine Kei Green-Rogers
2. Staging Queer Feminisms and Legacies in North America
Bess Rowen
3. Making Lesbian-Feminist Theatre: Lois Weaver, Tammy Whynot, and the Legacy of Split Britches
Benjamin Gillespie
4. Harnessing the Political Power of Traditional Femininity in the 1980s: David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly and Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa
Rachel M.E. Wolfe
5. Staging Genders & Centering Women’s Voices in West African Theatres
Heather Jeanne Denyer and Ngozi Udengwu
6. Crossing Borders and Transforming Gender Identities: Mahesh Dattani and Majula Padmanabhan
Jashodhara Sen
7. Staging Indigenous Women’s Voices, Histories, and Power
Yvette Nolan and Emily A. Rollie
8. Agency through Adaptation: MENA Women in Shakespeare’s Sisters, Jogging, and Noura
Nabra Nelson and Marina Johnson
9. Staging and Critiquing Masculinities: Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman and Straight White Men
Ramón Esquivel
10. Refuting Narratives of Newness, Constructing Transgender Community
Nicolas Shannon Savard
