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The Theatre of Laura Wade.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bell, Henry, author.
Bush, Sophie, author.
Contributor:
Lonergan, Patrick, series editor.
Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J., series editor.
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Chapter 1: Routes into writing: The unpublished plays of Laura Wade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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