This volume offers a comprehensive overview of women's playwriting, as well as a celebration of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. It combines critical essays, playwrights' memoirs, and conversations and interviews with playwrights to explore how women's playwriting evolved in relation to the women's movement and how it continues to map new territory and find fresh modes of expression. The majority of contributors to this volume-- playwrights, arts journalists, and theater critics-- have had some connection to the Blackburn Prize, either as award recipients, play readers, or judges. The memoirs, conversations, and interviews come from some of the finest women playwrights of the last three decades. These dramatists offer fascinating insight into the playwriting art, theatrical careers, and women's goals in writing for the theater.
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This volume offers a comprehensive overview of women's playwriting, as well as a celebration of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. It combines critical essays, playwrights' memoirs, and conversations and interviews with playwrights to explore how women's playwriting evolved in relation to the women's movement and how it continues to map new territory and find fresh modes of expression. The majority of contributors to this volume-- playwrights, arts journalists, and theater critics-- have had some connection to the Blackburn Prize, either as award recipients, play readers, or judges. The memoirs, conversations, and interviews come from some of the finest women playwrights of the last three decades. These dramatists offer fascinating insight into the playwriting art, theatrical careers, and women's goals in writing for the theater.
Imprint | University Of Texas Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | April 2006 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | May 2006 |
Editors | Alexis Greene |
Introduction by | Marsha Norman, Emilie S. Kilgore |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade / Trade |
Pages | 318 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-292-71329-1 |
Barcode | 9780292713291 |
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LSN | 0-292-71329-0 |