Lauren Gunderson and feminist theatre in the twenty-first century / Noelia Hernando-Real.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernando-Real, Noelia, 1977- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in women theatre makers, 2634-2391.

Cambridge elements. Elements in women theatre makers, 2634-2391

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gunderson, Lauren--Criticism and interpretation.

Gunderson, Lauren.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This Element is the first scholarly study of the theatre of Lauren Gunderson (b. 1982), one of the most produced US playwrights and a self-declared feminist playwright. Her feminist claims and theatrical interventions are assessed through four key strands of her theatre making: parodies of Shakespeare's canon; women-centred revisions to history; women and illness; and 'entertaining' feminism through popular theatre forms. Moving between the mainstream and the experimental, her theatre ranges from realism and quasi well-made plays to the experimental in a postmodern/Brechtian fashion, inviting consideration of the form(s) deployed for staging feminism in the twenty-first century. The Element discusses how Gunderson adapts the legacies of second-wave feminist theatre in the US to provide accessible experimental theatre and how she adopts popular genres in the interest of popular feminisms, giving way to an 'in-between' feminist practice: a feminist-theatre pathway that lies somewhere 'in between' the second-wave past and new directions.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Imprints page

Lauren Gunderson and Feminist Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

Contents

Introduction: Approaching Lauren Gunderson. Feminist, Playwright, Teacher

1 Feminist Parody and the Canon

2 Feminist Historiography for Badass Women

3 Feminist Approach to the Medical Humanities: On Women and Illness

4 Feminist Popular Entertainment

Conclusion

References

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-009-48736-1

1-009-48735-3

OCLC:

1545080806