Kane used this pseudonym to conceal her identity, first at a lunchtime reading and then at the Traverse Theatre, in an attempt to cast off her reputation for obscenity and violence. The programme included a...
Literary responses
Michelene Wandor
Susanne Greenhalgh
faulted the revised Post-War British Drama for being explicitly gendered and highly selective,
Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A Review of Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.
13
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 125-6.
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insufficiently attentive to recent playwrights like Sarah Kane
and Mark Ravenhill
, and for declining to engage with the...
Literary responses
Sarah Kane
Meanwhile fellow-playwright Mark Ravenhill
, having initially concluded from the reviews that this was a bad play, was astonished at reading the first few lines and knowing that I was in the hands of a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Michelene Wandor
In its original form, says Greenhalgh, this book reflects MW
's roles as playwright, reviewer, and Leavisite
student of English literature.
Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A Review of Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.
13
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 125-6.
125
The revised form considers the impact of feminism, socialism, and changing concepts of...