Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works

Sharon Friedman is a professor at the Gallatin School, New York University.

“a perceptive and broadly conceived overview for those who wish to become acquainted with the kinds of adaptations created by women in theatre over the past thirty years…the dazzling variety of the dramatic texts and productions encompassed by the volume will be a delight to any serious student of drama and theatre”—Text and Presentation, 2009.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      IntroductionSHARON FRIEDMAN      I. CLASSICAL THEATER AND MYTHAll Is Not Right in the House of Atreus: Feminist Theatrical Renderings of the OresteiaJULIE MALNIG      The Philomela Myth as Postcolonial Feminist Theater: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the NightingaleMAYA E. ROTH      Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses: Storytelling Theater as Feminist ProcessANDREA J. NOURYEH      The Political Is Personal: Feminism, Democracy and Antigone ProjectCAROL MARTIN      II. SHAKESPEARE AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY THEATERLear’s Daughters and Sons: Twisting the Canonical LandscapeLESLEY FERRIS      The Feminist Playwright as Critic: Paula Vogel, Ann-Marie MacDonald, and Djanet Sears Interpret OthelloSHARON FRIEDMAN      Transgressive Female Desire and Subversive Critique in the Seventeenth Century Canon: JoAnne Akalaitis’s StagingPhèdre, The Rover, and ’Tis Pity She’s a WhoreCHERYL BLACK      Reconfiguring the Text and the Self: The Wooster Group’s To You, the Birdie! (Phèdre)JOHAN CALLENS      III. NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY NARRATIVES AND REFLECTIONS: THE ROMANCE, THE NOVEL, AND THE ESSAYOutside the Law: Feminist Adaptations of The Scarlet LetterLENORA CHAMPAGNE      Expressions of “Lust and Rage”: Shared Experience Theatre’s Adaptation of Jane EyreKRISTIN CROUCH      A Mystical Place Called Grand Isle: Adapting Kate Chopin’s The AwakeningCHIORI MIYAGAWA      SITI Company’s Room: Theatrical Performance and/as Feminist Invitational RhetoricSANDEE K. MCGLAUN      IV. MODERN DRAMADeconstructing (A Streetcar Named) Desire: Gender Re-citation in Belle ReprieveDEBORAH R. GEIS      Nora’s Journey Through a Century of Feminisms to the Postmodern Stage of Mabou Mines DollHouseAMY S. GREEN      Bibliography      About the Contributors      Index