{"product_id":"upstaging-big-daddy-ellen-donkin-9780472065035","title":"Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater as If Gender and Race Matter","description":"The essays in \u003ci\u003eUpstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater \u003c\/i\u003eas if Gender and Race Matter argue that directing, as it has been taught and handed down over the years, has worked in the service of a body of dramatic literature that has routinely minimized or distorted the lives of women, people of color, gay men, and lesbians. The book's contributors see directing not as an ideologically neutral set of skills, but as something that has served historically to preserve existing forms of authority. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What happens, then, when a feminist who directs for the theater decides that there is something called a feminist director, someone who sees her job as protesting and intervening in the existing system of representation? The contributors to this volume provide a wide range of answers, in original essays that disrupt traditional approaches of directing by showing how feminist theory might be applied in practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Essays and interviews by a wide variety of directors, scholars, and other theater specialists offer fresh new models for thinking about directing. The collection includes essays on African-American theater, feminist \"classics,\" and male directors working on feminist plays, as well as concrete suggestions for directing a variety of plays, from works by Shakespeare and Euripides to those by Caryl Churchill, Aishah Rahman, and Helene Cixous. The theoretical material, drawing from a wide range of contemporary critics and theorists, has been written with the director in mind, partly for the purpose of analyzing texts but also for inspiring creative directorial and design solutions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ellen Donkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472065033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472065035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Ellen Donkin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992198512895,"sku":"9780472065035","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_332316c8-133f-4435-b1f2-e19b17d44508.jpg?v=1683314597","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/upstaging-big-daddy-ellen-donkin-9780472065035","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}