Women's Voices on American Stages in the Early Twenty-First Century [electronic resource] : Sarah Ruhl and Her Contemporaries /
Durham, L.author.
Women are at the center of American theatre and have the potential to shape the cultural imagination of theatre-goers as a complex new era unfolds. Sarah Ruhl, one of the twenty-first century's most honored playwrights, is read in concert with her contemporaries whose writing also wrestles with the vexing issues facing Americans in the new century.
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Cover; Women's Voices on American Stages in the Early Twenty-First Century: Sarah Ruhl and Her Contemporaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Context for Ruhl and Her Contemporaries, or Women's Playwriting: Strictly Prohibited in the New Century?; Sarah Ruhl's Serious Success; Riding Waves of Emotion; The Methodology and Structure of the Study; CHAPTER 1: Educating Sarah Ruhl; The Piven Theatre and Joyce Piven; Adapting and Studying Woolf; Adapting and Studying Chekhov; CHAPTER 2: Emotional Journeys; Eurydice; The Year of Magical Thinking; God's Ear; CHAPTER 3: Caring Labor
The Clean HouseLiving Out; Satellites; CHAPTER 4: Theatrical Devotion; Passion Play; Church; 100 Saints You Should Know; CHAPTER 5: Mobile Lines; Dead Man's Cell Phone; Kin; Water by the Spoonful; CHAPTER 6: Natural Forces; In the Next Room; Ruined; A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick; EPILOGUE: "The Curtain Goes Up"; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women are at the center of American theatre and have the potential to shape the cultural imagination of theatre-goers as a complex new era unfolds. Sarah Ruhl, one of the twenty-first century's most honored playwrights, is read in concert with her contemporaries whose writing also wrestles with the vexing issues facing Americans in the new century.
Ruhl, Sarah, 1974-
Sociology.
Theater-History.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Gender Studies.
Theatre History.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.