Some feminists criticize male playwrights for misrepresenting
and thereby victimizing women through patriarchal narratives; other
feminists applaud selected male playwrights as creators of
"universal" women's roles. In this bold and imaginative book, Gay
Gibson Cima delineates previously unacknowledged complexities in
the relationship between male playwrights and female characters in
the modern theatre. That relationship has been misinterpreted, she
maintains, because the contributions of female actors and the
variations in their actual performance conditions and styles are
too often ignored.
Taking into account hypothetical as well as historical
performances of works by representative male playwrights from Ibsen
to Beckett, Cima sheds important new light on the acting styles
invented by women to create female characters on stage. Changes in
performance style, Cima observes, may alter conventional modes of
viewing and disrupt behavioral codes generated by a patriarchal
cultural system.
Performing Women is essential reading for theatre critics and
historians, feminist theorists, theatre professionals and amateurs,
and others interested in film and the stage.
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