Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary [Women] Practitioners

✍ Scribed by Elaine Aston; Geraldine Harris

Publisher: Methuen Drama
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 199
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Drawing on hands-on experience from workshops and interviews, this innovative book explores the work of eight gender aware theatre and performance artists and companies. The authors offer rare insights into the processes as well as the practice of these artists and employ an 'inside', practical approach to understanding their ground-breaking work

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