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9 | (2) |
| Preface and Acknowledgements |
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11 | (2) |
| Theatre and the AutoBiographical Pact: An Introduction |
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13 | (20) |
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Part One---Theorizing AutoBiographical Theatre |
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33 | (16) |
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Documemory, Autobiology, and the Utopian Performative in Canadian Autobiographical Solo Performance |
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49 | (23) |
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Theorizing the Gendered Space of Auto/Biographical Performance via Samuel Beckett and Hans Bellmer |
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72 | (17) |
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(Un)Covering the Mirror: Performative Reflections in Linda Griffiths's Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen and Wendy Lill's The Occupation of Heather Rose |
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89 | (18) |
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Part Two---AutoBiographical Plays: Stage, Page, or Real Life? |
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Tremblay's Impromptus As Process-driven A/B |
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107 | (17) |
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The Shape of a Life: Constructing ``Self'' and ``Other'' in Joan MacLeod's The Shape of a Girl and Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef's A Line in the Sand |
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124 | (13) |
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Resonant Lives: The Dramatic Self-Portraiture of Vincent and Emily |
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137 | (15) |
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Auto/Biography and Re/Vision: Betty Lambert's Under the Skin |
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152 | (15) |
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A Ship of Fools in the Feminine: Six Characters in Search of Self |
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167 | (18) |
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Part Three---Theatre Lives: From Autobiography to Biography |
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Autobiography, Gender, and Theatre Histories: Spectrums of Reading British Actresses' Autobiographies from the 1920s and 1930s |
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185 | (17) |
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Untold Stories: [Re]Searching for Canadian Actresses' Lives |
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202 | (23) |
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Totem Theatre: AutoBiography of a Company |
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225 | (24) |
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David Mamet: Life Without an Archive |
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249 | (12) |
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Behind the Scenes: Irish Theatre, Irish Lives, and the Task of the Biographer |
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261 | (14) |
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Sharon Pollock's Doc and the Biographer's Dilemma |
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275 | (16) |
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Part Four---Creating AutoBiography on Stage |
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Writing and Performing Lives: Ten Playwrights Speak |
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291 | (4) |
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Playwright: Parasite or Symbiont |
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295 | (6) |
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I Am a Thief ... Not Necessarily Honourable Either |
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301 | (5) |
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Fact Does Not Interest Me Near As Much As Fantasy |
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306 | (3) |
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The Malcolm X School of Playwriting |
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309 | (4) |
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How in Hell Did She Do It? |
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313 | (4) |
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I'm Not God's Gift to Black People |
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317 | (4) |
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321 | (3) |
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324 | (5) |
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In the End You Are Made Accountable |
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329 | (3) |
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Blahblahblahblah Mememememe Theatreschmeatre |
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332 | (4) |
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| Playwrights' Selected Bibliography |
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336 | (2) |
| Contributor, Biographies |
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338 | (6) |
| Index |
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