Women writing plays : three decades of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

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* Foreword (by Emilie S. Kilgore) * Acknowledgments and Note to Readers * Introduction: Women Writing Plays (by Marsha Norman) * Part One: Breaking the Silence *1. Social Change, Artistic Ferment * The U.S.A. (by Charlotte Canning) * The U.K. (by Elizabeth Swain ) *2. Entering the Mainstream: The Plays of Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Wendy Wasserstein (by Mel Gussow) *3. A Conversation: Timberlake Wertenbaker, Max Stafford-Clark, and Michael Billington * Part Two: Facing the World *4. The Female Gaze (by Emily Mann) *5 . Women and War: The Plays of Emily Mann, Lavonne Mueller, Shirley Lauro, Naomi Wallace, Shirley Gee, and Anne Devlin (by Alexis Greene) *6. Our Bodies, Ourselves * Memoir of a Sexual Woman (by Sharman MacDonald) * An Excerpt from the Play Sweeping the Nation (by Susan Miller) * Standing at the Crossroads (by Pearl Cleage) *7. Engaging Social Issues, Expressing a Political Outlook (by Gwynn MacDonald) *8. Crossing Borders: A Conversation with Bridget Carpenter, Lynn Nottage, Dael Orlandersmith, and Diana Son * Part Three: The Art of the Playwright *9. Whose Voices Are These? The Arts of Language in the Plays of Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, and Diana Son (by Amy S. Green) *10. First-Person Singular: Female Writers Embrace the One-Person Play (by Mandy Greenfield) *11. Women's Imaginations: Experimenting with Theatrical Form (by Carole Woddis) *12. Joking Aside: A Conversation about Comedy with Christopher Durang, Gina Gionfriddo, Sarah Ruhl, and Wendy Wasserstein * Part Four: The Expanding World of Women's Plays *13. The Freedom to Create (by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti) *14. Beyond the U.S.A, Beyond the U.K. * A View from South Africa (by Fatima Dike) * A View from Australia (by Peta Tait) * A View from New Zealand (by Jean Betts) * A View from Canada (by Judith Thompson) *15. New Voices (by Alexis Greene) *16. Prescriptions for a Playwriting Life * Dear Emily: On Being a Playwright (by Timberlake Wertenbaker) * Afterword (by Bill Blackburn) * Appendix: The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize * About the Contributors * Permissions and Credits * Index

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