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Performing Women : Stand-ups, Strumpets and Itinerants, PDF eBook

Performing Women : Stand-ups, Strumpets and Itinerants PDF

Edited by Alison Oddey

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Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the twentieth century, telling various stories collectively.

Stand-ups, 'classic' actresses, film and television personalities, experimental and 'alternative' practitioners discuss why they want to perform, what motivates them, and how their personal history has contributed to their desires to perform.

Oddey's critical introductory and concluding chapters analyse both historical and cultural contexts and explore themes arising from interviews.

These include sense of identity, acting as playing (recapturing and revisiting childhood), displacement of roots, performing, motherhood and 'being', performing comedy, differences between theatre, film and television performance, attitudes towards and relationships with audiences, and working with directors.

The prominent subtext of motherhood reveals a consciousness of split subjectivities with and beyond performance.

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