THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Caryl Churchill, Victorian Era, Gender Equality
16 Dec 2014
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Devised theatre: a writer works with production crew. Invites others people input into how story is told. Postmodern british female playwright, renowned for her political, non-linear plays that deal with transgressive and often materialist-feminist content. One of the 1st women playwrights to achieve world-wide popularity. Considered by many to be one of the greatest playwrights in western theatre. Authored 30 plays in addition to a number of adaptations and radio plays. First act set in a british african colony, during victorian era (1879) and second act in. Written and set a decade civil rights movement. After the sexual liberation movement of the sixties, which also marked the beginning of so-called second wave feminism and of various struggles for racial equality. Thus, a time which changes in sexual and gender politic should have been quite parlpable, particularly in relation to those of the prior century.
