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The Theatre of Laura Wade.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Henry, author.
- Bush, Sophie, author.
- Series:
- Critical Companions.
- Critical Companions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Methuen Drama, 2026.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- The first full-length exploration of the work of Laura Wade, providing critical and performance perspectives on one of the UK's most frequently staged female playwrights.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Figure and Tables
- Figure
- Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Theatre contexts: Wade's resistances and receptions of UK new writing trends 2005-18
- 2005-6: Colder Than Here, Breathing Corpses, Other Hands and Catch
- 2010: Posh, Alice and Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer
- 2015-18: Tipping the Velvet, Home, I'm Darling and The Watsons
- The socio-cultural contexts of subsidy
- Chapter 1: Routes into writing: The unpublished plays of Laura Wade
- The Crucible Youth Theatre
- Bristol University
- '16 Winters' (Bristol Old Vic Basement, 2000)
- Playbox Theatre
- Young Emma (Finborough, 2003)
- Royal Court Theatre Young Writers' Programme
- Chapter 2: An arrival in form: Time, space and dialogue in Colder Than Here, Breathing Corpses and Other Hands
- Time and space in Breathing Corpses and Colder Than Here
- Circular time and paradoxical narratives in Breathing Corpses
- The permeation of time on the stage language of Colder Than Here
- The Currency of Words in Other Hands.
- Chapter 3: The women in the room: On-stage and off-stage gender dynamics in Posh and The Riot Club
- 'Imagined ritual': The research and development process
- 'Girls for now, girls for later'
- Productions and casting
- Chapter 4: Long road home: Collaborations in Home, I'm Darling
- Collaboration as feminist practice
- Intergenerational feminisms
- Becoming Judy: The genealogy of a character
- Collaboration as creative and personal freedom
- Chapter 5: Radical kindness: Re-centring female experience in Laura Wade's approach to stage adaptation: The Watsons, Tipping the Velvet, 'KREUTZER VS. KREUTZER' and Alice
- Alice, Tipping the Velvet and The Watsons: Critical contexts and creations
- Alice
- Tipping the Velvet
- The Watsons.
- Interlude: A feminist re-centring of Tolstoy in 'Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer' (2010)
- Wade's adaptations: The feminist particular, not the universal?
- Chapter 6: Teaching and staging the theatre of Laura Wade
- Teaching Alice: Practitioner explorations
- Stanislavski and Alice (2010)
- Alice and the embodied practices of Jacques Lecoq
- Exploring Complicité staging techniques through Alice
- Conclusions
- Chronology
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- References
- Index.
- ISBN:
- 1-350-28213-8
- 1-350-28211-1
- 9781350282117
- OCLC:
- 1559243506
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