Doing What Comes Naturally? Women and Devising in the UK Today

Alex Mermikides; Jackie Smart

Doing What Comes Naturally? Women and Devising in the UK Today

Alex Mermikides
, Jackie Smart

Guildhall School

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Abstract

In a 1998 essay on devising theatre in the UK, Alison Oddey refers to “the seemingly natural relationship between women and devised theatre in the 1970s,” which, she suggests, arose “out of a climate which encouraged women to find a voice together through the collective, democratic process of devising.” In this chapter we revisit Oddey’s claim, analysing how the politics of gender intersect with the material practices of performance-making in the UK today and asking whether the notion that devising is a “natural” way for women to work creatively together, retains any credence.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9781137603272
Publication status	Published - 2016

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