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Australian Women's Drama: Texts and Feminisms  

Peta Tait & Elizabeth Schafer (eds)

$29.95 ex GST
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A collection of plays that charts some of the shifts in feminist thinking over the past twenty-five years and features some of Australia’s most renowned female dramatists.

The plays are: The Chapel Perilous (Dorothy Hewett); Vocations (Alma De Groen); Running Up A Dress (Suzanne Spunner); Murras (Eva Johnson); The Forty Lounge Cafe (Tes Lyssiotis); Remember (Jenny Kemp); and Historia (Noëlle Janaczewska).

Currency Press | 978-0-86819-497-4 | PB

Author

Dr Peta Tait is Professor in Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She wrote Converging Realities: Feminism in Australian Theatre, which was published by Currency Press in 1994, and Original Women's Theatre, published by Artmoves in 1993. Her articles on physical theatre, new circus, performing emotions and gender are published internationally.

Dr Elizabeth Schafer is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, London University, where she teaches a specialist course in Australian drama. She is the author of MsDirecting Shakespeare (London: Women's Press, 1998), a study of female directors. She continues to write on the theatre.