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Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | The work deals with theatre and sexual politics since 1968, with an emphasis on alternative theatre groups such as the Women's Theatre Group
, Gay Sweatshop
, and Monstrous Regiment
. The original version considers... |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | Since the early 1990s, MW
has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford
, John Milton
, and Ariosto
: Spain, first performed... |
Textual Features | Ali Smith | Although certainly located in the Brechtian
tradition of epic theatre, with its political resonances and self-referentiality, it is likewise identifiable as theatre of the absurd (as AS
points out), Smith, Ali. “Just”. Shell Connections 2005: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, pp. 275-24. 317 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In 1932 DR
missed out on a chance to work with Bertolt Brecht
. Shortly after the release of The Dubarry, of which her translation received excellent notices, she received a request from Brecht... |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR
's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible... |
Textual Features | Claire Luckham | Scum takes place in a laundry at the time of the Paris commune (between September 1870 and January 1871). Making use of the Brechtian
techniques of song and direct address, the play establishes connections between... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Claire Luckham | Intended for a working-class audience, the play was inspired in part by Brecht
; CL
says she was particularly interested in his enthusiasm for boxing and the relationship between fighters and their audience. Reinelt, Janelle. “Beyond Brecht: Britain’s New Feminist Drama”. Feminist Theatre and Theory, edited by Helene Keyssar, St Martin’s Press, pp. 25-48. 40 |
Textual Features | Claire Luckham | The metatheatrical first act takes place during rehearsals for William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet (in which Kemble made her triumphant stage debut on 5 October 1829); in it Kemble's aunt Sarah Siddons
instructs her niece on playing... |
Reception | Sarah Kane | A propos the Sheffield production of 2015, Alan Bennett
commented on the difficulty of achieving realism with such extreme violence: how can a character mutilated on stage be shown as having attention for anything at... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bessie Head | The title in fact echoes that of her first novel, since in Setswana it means clouds, weather, or the elements. Eilenberg believes that roots of this story lie in BH
's erotic involvement, during her... |
Occupation | Germaine Greer | During this period she added film to stage performance in it droppeth as the gentle rain, a surrealist work by Albie Thoms
(who was later an avant-garde film-maker of some fame). Designed to be... |
Textual Features | Pam Gems | Structured along the lines of Brecht
ian epic theatre, but filmic in many of its methods, PG
's drama presents a sequence of episodes from the life of the seventeenth-century Swedish ruler Queen Christina
.... |
Leisure and Society | Margaret Forster | MF
also acted while at Oxford, taking the role of the peasant girl Grusha in a production of Brecht
's The Caucasian Chalk Circle that was directed and starred in by Dennis Potter
. During... |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | In a historical novel or fictional biography entitled Loving Brecht, EF
presented Frieda Bloom, an invented cabaret singer, relating her life with Bertolt Brecht
, in Germany (Berlin), Moscow, and the USA... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | Home in this collection opens, Where is that I wonder? It then evokes comfortable, elegant settings of both childhood and adult life, and also a place where the poet awakes from dreaming of her dead... |
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