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Series:   Elements in Women Theatre Makers

Women Making Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2024

Kim Solga
Kim Solga
Affiliation:
Western University

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This Element examines why women makers from equity-owed communities (Indigenous, of colour, Deaf, disabled, trans and non-binary communities among others) choose to work with Shakespeare and his contemporaries at a moment in time when theatres around the world are striving toward equity, inclusion, diversity, and decolonization. It details and explores these creators' processes to learn from them about how to transform plays we know all too well as patriarchy-affirming, ableist, and often racist into vehicles for community storytelling and models for radically inclusive and difference-centred ways of making.
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decolonizationintersectionalitycreation practiceswomen artistsShakespeare
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Series: Elements in Women Theatre Makers
Online ISBN: 9781009064507
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 17 October 2024

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