Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Creating Feminine/ist Theatre : Ecriture Feminine as a Framework for Directors
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'This article argues that when actors and directors use an 'affect-first' approach to performance, they are able to build an alternative semiotic that allows distinctly feminine/ist meaning to be created in the rehearsal room and shared in performance. This feminine/ist strategy for meaning- creation requires makers to feel first and think second, thus problematising the patriarchal Cartesian hierarchies of mind/body, and opening a space for affect and the body to be centralised in the creation of on-stage meaning. Using Fraught Outfit's 2012-13 production of 'Persona' as a case study, I contend that working at the intersections of feminist theatre theory, affect theory and 'ecriture feminine' allows feminine/ist theatre-makers to signify a broader and deeper range of meaning in and with the female body than otherwise possible with an approach that prioritises traditional theatre semiotics.'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Australasian Drama Studies no. 74 May 2019 16837602 2019 periodical issue 'It may be a form of dramaturgical or scholarly magical thinking that leads me to seek patterns and connecting threads in ten articles published in a general issue of an academic journal. For there need be none. A general issue demands a different curatorial approach to that of a special issue with a focus on a particular theme, subject or question. The editor calls for submissions, evaluates those submissions primarily according to one’s judgement of that nebulous and contested criteria of ‘quality’. They send drafts to peer reviewers, and make final decisions based (again) on the ‘quality’ of re-drafts, and on available space.' (Yoni Prior : Editorial introduction) 2019 pg. 217-242
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  • Persona Adena Jacobs , Dayna Morrissey , Danny Pettingill , 2012 single work drama
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