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Performing women : stand-ups, strumpets, and itenerants

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  • "Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, telling various stories collectively. Stand-ups, 'classic' actresses, film and television personalities, and performance artists discuss why they want to perform, what motivates them, and how their personal history has contributed to their desires to perform. Oddey's critical, analytical introductory chapters consider both historical and cultural contexts, as well as an examination of themes arising from interviews. These include sense of identity, acting as playing (recapturing and revisiting childhood), displacement of roots, performing, motherhood and 'being', performing comedy, differences between theatre, film and television performance, attitudes towards and relationships with audiences, and working with directors. The prominent subtext of motherhood reveals a consciousness of split subjectivities with and beyond performance. This second edition offers the voices of Jenny Eclair, Niamh Cusack, Imogen Stubbs, Josette Simon, Meera Syal, Jane Horrocks, Kathy Burke, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Heather Ackroyd, Naomi Frederick, Jo Brand, Imelda Staunton, Juliet Stevenson, Kathryn Hunter, Fiona Shaw, Dawn French, Miranda Richardson, Janet McTeer, Victoria Wood, Penelope Wilton, June Whitfield, Sheila Hancock, Brenda Blethyn, Alison Steadman, Julie Walters, Geraldine James and Bobby Baker."

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