Low Level Panic
Author: Clare McIntyre
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848426405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA funny, unapologetic play about the effects of society's objectification of women.
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My Heart's a Suitcase & Low Level Panic
Author: Clare McIntyre
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781854592460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo modern feminist classics by a writer who was amongst the extraordinary generation of British female playwrights to emerge in the 1980s. 'McIntyre's first Royal Court play, Low Level Panic, [is] a deft and funny all-female three-hander, set in a bathroom... The play was directed in 1988 by Nancy Meckler with Caroline Quentin, Lorraine Brunning and Alaine Hickmott in the principal roles. The panic of the title is provoked by omnipresent pornography and a sexual assault on one of the characters. But the play's originality and boldness lie in its treatment of the characters' complex relationships with their own sexual fantasies, their bodies and each other. 'In McIntyre's next play, My Heart's a Suitcase, which had its premiere at the Royal Court in 1990, the sense of invasion felt by the two female central characters is dramatised by characters called Pest and Luggage, who burst unpredictably through the walls of the seaside flat in which the play is set. ... McIntyre's theatrical imagination [is] matched by an unsentimental but sympathetic portrayal of women trying to make sense of their place in a threatening and intrusive world. 'Low Level Panic won the Samuel Beckett award, while My Heart's a Suitcase earned McIntyre the Evening Standard's most promising playwright award, with both plays quickly entering the feminist theatre canon.' David Edgar, The Guardian
My Heart's a Suitcase
Author: Clare McIntyre
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781854590725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis play about fear and materialistic longing compares an angrily impoverished waitress and a philosophical ceramics teacher in the early stages of multiple sclerosis who are sharing a borrowed, run down seaside apartment for the weekend. Visitors include the shopaholic wife of the landlord, a drunken misfit and two spectral intruders: Pest, a bad memory and Luggage, the Patron Saint of Heavy Burdens.
Four Plays
Author: Kevin Elyot
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781854598301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of Elyot's work to date
Rage And Reason
Author: Heidi Stephenson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-05-29
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1408178036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama. Twenty leading contemporary dramatists discuss their work from the perspective of being both writers and women. Each talks about the state of the theatre now, the craft of playwrighting, and the pressures of working within a male dominated environment. The book also features Sarah Kane's very last public interview. 'What I think is so exciting about the response to a number of the plays written by women in the last ten years is that they are popular with audiences - because they've got this quality, this energy and this culture that hasn't been seen much on stage before: a humour, sexiness and wit that's been missing' - Charlotte Keatley
Rage And Reason
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-05-29
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1472538013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama. Twenty leading contemporary dramatists discuss their work from the perspective of being both writers and women. Each talks about the state of the theatre now, the craft of playwrighting, and the pressures of working within a male dominated environment. The book also features Sarah Kane's very last public interview. 'What I think is so exciting about the response to a number of the plays written by women in the last ten years is that they are popular with audiences - because they've got this quality, this energy and this culture that hasn't been seen much on stage before: a humour, sexiness and wit that's been missing' - Charlotte Keatley
Feminist Views on the English Stage
Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-11-24
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1139441531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeminist Views on the English Stage, first published in 2003, is an exciting and insightful study on drama from a feminist perspective, one that challenges an idea of the 1990s as a 'post-feminist' decade and pays attention to women's playwriting marginalized by a 'renaissance' of angry young men. Working through a generational mix of writers, from Sarah Kane, the iconoclastic 'bad girl' of the stage, to the 'canonical' Caryl Churchill, Elaine Aston charts the significant political and aesthetic changes in women's playwriting at the century's end. Aston also explores writing for the 1990s in theatre by Sarah Daniels, Bryony Lavery, Phyllis Nagy, Winsome Pinnock, Rebecca Prichard, Judy Upton and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Nick Hern Books
Author: Nick Hern Books (London).
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781854595164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBreaking the Bounds
Author: Dimple Godiwala
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBreaking the Bounds focuses on second-wave feminism as a rupture in an unbroken episteme of Western patriarchy analyzed with regard to British dramatic discourse. The theoretical framework is a genealogy of patriarchy deploying and developing Foucault's ideas on discourse to apply to a deconstruction of Western patriarchy. An analysis of feminist drama texts is used to support the argument that Western patriarchy consists of one unbroken episteme as the patriarchal impulse substrates the epistemological breaks indicated by Foucault. The theoretical text speaks of the twentieth-century feminist rupture from patriarchy, analyzing in detail the texts of five mainstream feminist dramatists who have successfully effected an intervention in the British grand récit of undeniably male dramatic discourse.
The Theatre Guide
Author: Trevor R. Griffiths
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-07-04
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1408103133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith over 500 entries on the most important plays and playwrights performed today, The Theatre Guide provides an authoritative A - Z of the contemporary theatre scene. From Aristophanes to Mark Ravenhill, The Alchemist to The Talking Cure, the Guide is both biographically detailed and critically current, while an extensive cross-referencing system allows for wider perspectives and new discoveries. Stimulating, observant and informative, The Theatre Guide is an essential companion and reference tool for anyone with an active interest in drama.
