Lauren Gunderson and Feminist Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

Name: Lauren Gunderson and Feminist Theatre in the Twenty-First Century
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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This Element is the first scholarly study of the theatre of Lauren Gunderson (b. 1982), one of the most produced US playwrights and a self-declared feminist playwright. Her feminist claims and theatrical interventions are assessed through four key strands of her theatre making: parodies of Shakespeare's canon; women-centred revisions to history; women and illness; and 'entertaining' feminism through popular theatre forms. Moving between the mainstream and the experimental, her theatre ranges from realism and quasi well-made plays to the experimental in a postmodern/Brechtian fashion, inviting consideration of the form(s) deployed for staging feminism in the twenty-first century. The Element discusses how Gunderson adapts the legacies of second-wave feminist theatre in the US to provide accessible experimental theatre and how she adopts popular genres in the interest of popular feminisms, giving way to an 'in-between' feminist practice: a feminist-theatre pathway that lies somewhere 'in between' the second-wave past and new directions.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 86
Release Date:: 2025-12-11
Publication Date:: 2025-11-17
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 100948740X
ISBN13:: 9781009487405
Weight:: 139 g
Height:: 15.2 cm
Width:: 22.9 cm
Thickness:: 0.5 cm

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