Theater And Autobiography

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Pub. Date: 2006-02-01
Publisher(s): Talonbooks Ltd
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Summary

That both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of unprecedented importance over the past thirty years is now obvious. Less obvious are the reasons for this phenomenon. Theorists and students of AutoBiography, a research subject now viewed as respectable in academic circles, have recently mapped the contours and shifting parameters of the autobiographical and the biographical processes, thereby contributing to the profile and stature of both.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
9(2)
Preface and Acknowledgements 11(2)
Theatre and the AutoBiographical Pact: An Introduction 13(20)
Sherrill Grace
Part One---Theorizing AutoBiographical Theatre
3-D A/B
33(16)
Susan Bennett
Documemory, Autobiology, and the Utopian Performative in Canadian Autobiographical Solo Performance
49(23)
Ric Knowles
Theorizing the Gendered Space of Auto/Biographical Performance via Samuel Beckett and Hans Bellmer
72(17)
Richard J. Lane
(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
89(18)
Katherine McLeod
Part Two---AutoBiographical Plays: Stage, Page, or Real Life?
Tremblay's Impromptus As Process-driven A/B
107(17)
Louis Patrick Leroux
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
124(13)
Joanne Tompkins
Resonant Lives: The Dramatic Self-Portraiture of Vincent and Emily
137(15)
Anne Nothof
Auto/Biography and Re/Vision: Betty Lambert's Under the Skin
152(15)
Cynthia Zimmerman
A Ship of Fools in the Feminine: Six Characters in Search of Self
167(18)
Louise Forsyth
Part Three---Theatre Lives: From Autobiography to Biography
Autobiography, Gender, and Theatre Histories: Spectrums of Reading British Actresses' Autobiographies from the 1920s and 1930s
185(17)
Maggie B. Gale
Untold Stories: [Re]Searching for Canadian Actresses' Lives
202(23)
Paula Sperdakos
Totem Theatre: AutoBiography of a Company
225(24)
Denis Johnston
David Mamet: Life Without an Archive
249(12)
Ira Nadel
Behind the Scenes: Irish Theatre, Irish Lives, and the Task of the Biographer
261(14)
Ann Saddlemyer
Sharon Pollock's Doc and the Biographer's Dilemma
275(16)
Sherrill Grace
Part Four---Creating AutoBiography on Stage
Writing and Performing Lives: Ten Playwrights Speak
291(4)
Jerry Wasserman
Playwright: Parasite or Symbiont
295(6)
Sharon Pollock
I Am a Thief ... Not Necessarily Honourable Either
301(5)
Linda Griffiths
Fact Does Not Interest Me Near As Much As Fantasy
306(3)
Tomson Highway
The Malcolm X School of Playwriting
309(4)
Lorena Gale
How in Hell Did She Do It?
313(4)
Joy Coghill
I'm Not God's Gift to Black People
317(4)
Andrew Moodie
I Always Stick to Facts
321(3)
Sally Clark
Never Not Narrative
324(5)
R. H. Thomson
In the End You Are Made Accountable
329(3)
Marie Clements
Blahblahblahblah Mememememe Theatreschmeatre
332(4)
Guillermo Verdecchia
Playwrights' Selected Bibliography 336(2)
Contributor, Biographies 338(6)
Index 344

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