Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities

<p>This introduction to the staging of genders and sexualities across world theatre sets out a broad view of the subject by featuring plays and performance artists that shifted the conversation in their cultural social and historical moments.</p><p>Designed for weekly use in theatre studies dramatic literature or gender and performance studies courses these ten milestones highlight women and writers of the global majority supporting and amplifying voices that are key to the field and some that have typically been overlooked. From Paula Vogel Split Britches and Young Jean Lee to Werewere Liking Mahesh Dattani Yvette Nolan and more the chapters place artists’ key works into conversation with one another structurally offering an intersectional perspective on staging genders and sexualities.</p><p>Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social cultural political and artistic development of foundational subject areas.</p>