Performing Women
Stand-ups, Strumpets and Itinerants
Authors
- Dawn French
- Jenny Eclair
- Jo Brand
- Miranda Richardson
- Imelda Staunton
- Kathy Burke
- Sheila Hancock
- Victoria Wood
- Meera Syal
- Julie Walters
- Fiona Shaw
- Alison Steadman
- Imogen Stubbs
- June Whitfield
- Niamh Cusack
- Heather Ackroyd
- Alison Oddey
- Brenda Blethyn
- Bobby Baker
- Kathryn Hunter
- Jane Horrocks
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste
- Josette Simon
- Juliet Stevenson
- Penelope Wilton
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Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women, span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the 20th 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 and analytical introductory essay examines themes of performers' identities, displacement, acting as playing, differences between theatre, film and television performance, attitudes towards and relationships with audiences, and working with women directors. In several interviews the additional challenge of motherhood emerges as an important subtext in the performing lives of these women.
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Performing Women, Dawn French, Jenny Eclair, Jo Brand, Miranda Richardson, Imelda Staunton, Kathy Burke, Sheila Hancock, Victoria Wood, Meera Syal, Julie Walters, Fiona Shaw, Alison Steadman, Imogen Stubbs, June Whitfield, Niamh Cusack, Heather Ackroyd, Alison Oddey, Brenda Blethyn, Bobby Baker, Kathryn Hunter, Jane Horrocks, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Josette Simon, Juliet Stevenson, Penelope Wilton
- Language
- Released
- 1999
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
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- Title
- Performing Women
- Subtitle
- Stand-ups, Strumpets and Itinerants
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Dawn French, Jenny Eclair, Jo Brand, Miranda Richardson, Imelda Staunton, Kathy Burke, Sheila Hancock, Victoria Wood, Meera Syal, Julie Walters, Fiona Shaw, Alison Steadman, Imogen Stubbs, June Whitfield, Niamh Cusack, Heather Ackroyd, Alison Oddey, Brenda Blethyn, Bobby Baker, Kathryn Hunter, Jane Horrocks, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Josette Simon, Juliet Stevenson, Penelope Wilton
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN10
- 033371394X
- ISBN13
- 9780333713945
- Series
- Tags
- Women, Feminism, Performing Arts
- Description
- Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women, span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the 20th 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 and analytical introductory essay examines themes of performers' identities, displacement, acting as playing, differences between theatre, film and television performance, attitudes towards and relationships with audiences, and working with women directors. In several interviews the additional challenge of motherhood emerges as an important subtext in the performing lives of these women.