Performing women : stand-ups, strumpets and itinerants
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Performing women : stand-ups, strumpets and itinerants
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
2nd ed
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 340) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the twentieth-century, telling various stories collectively. Stand-ups, 'classic' actresses, film and television personalities, experimental and 'alternative' practitioners discuss why they want to perform, what motivates them, and how their personal history has contributed to their desire to perform. Oddey's critical introductory and concluding chapters analyze both historical and cultural contexts and explore themes arising from the interviews. These include sense of identity, acting as playing (recapturing and revisiting childhood), displacement of roots, performing, motherhood and 'being', performing comedy, differences between theatre, film and television performance, attitudes towards and relationships with audiences, and working with directors. The prominent subtext of motherhood reveals a consciousness of split subjectives with and beyond performance. This new edition of the book includes three new interviews with actresses, and is useful primary resource material for undergraduate students on performance studies courses.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Acronyms Preface to the Second Edition PART I: PERFORMING WOMEN PART II: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS PART III: STAND-UPS, STRUMPETS AND ITINERANTS Jenny Eclair Niamh Cusack Imogen Stubbs Josette Simon Meera Syal Jane Horrocks Kathy Burke Marianne Jean-Baptiste Heather Ackroyd Jo Brand Imelda Staunton Juliet Stevenson Kathryn Hunter Fiona Shaw Dawn French Miranda Richardson Victoria Wood Penelope Wilton June Whitfield Sheila Hancock Brenda Blethyn Alison Steadman Julie Walters Bobby Baker Janet McTeer Naomi Frederick Geraldine James PART IV: WHY PERFORM?: THEMES ARISING FROM INTERVIEWS Selected Bibliography Index
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