{"product_id":"recording-women","title":"Recording Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst Published in 2000, \u003ci\u003eRecording Women \u003c\/i\u003edocuments the work of three leading feminist theatre companies, Sphinx Theatre Company, Scarlett Theatre and Foresight Theatre, through a combination of interviews with theatre practitioners and detailed descriptions of productions in performance. Each of the six productions is innovative in content and style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScarlett Theatre’s \u003ci\u003ePaper Walls\u003c\/i\u003e and Foresight Theatre’s \u003ci\u003eBoadicea: The Red-Bellied Queen\u003c\/i\u003e employ a skillful mixture of text, music, physical performance, humour and seriousness to explore, respectively, domestic abuse and rape (of women and community). Scarlett Theatre’s \u003ci\u003eThe Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e and Sphinx’s \u003ci\u003eVoyage in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e adapt existing texts. \u003ci\u003eThe sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is a ritualized re-enactment of Chekhov’s \u003ci\u003eThree Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e in which only the female characters from the play appear. \u003ci\u003eVoyage in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e uses film-noir-like theatrical effects and the insistent rhythms of the tango to evoke the rootlessness and sense of alienation that characterizes Jean Rhys’s novel. \u003ci\u003eSlap\u003c\/i\u003e (Foursight Theatre) and \u003ci\u003eGoliath\u003c\/i\u003e (Sphinx) are both one woman shows. \u003ci\u003eSlap\u003c\/i\u003e, performed by Naomi Cooke, explores images of motherhood, including lesbian motherhood and the concept of virgin birth. \u003ci\u003eGoliath\u003c\/i\u003e, performed by Nicola McAuliffe, is a dramatization, by Bryony Lavery, of Beatrix Campbell’s powerful study of the 1991 riots in Cardiff, Oxford and Tyneside. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of theatre studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56408740266328,"sku":"9781032860398","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032860398.jpg?v=1770925525","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/recording-women","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}