Women in Performance: Repurposing Failure

by Sarah Gorman

Book Overview

Women in Performance: Repurposing Failure charts the renewed popularity of intersectional feminism, gender, race and identity politics in contemporary Western experimental theatre, comedy and performance through the featured artists' ability to strategically repurpose failure.

Failure has provided a popular frame through which to theorise recent avantgarde performance, even though the work rarely acknowledges stakes tend to be higher for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138223352
• ISBN13: 9781138223356
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"