Emma Rice's Feminist Acts of Love

Lisa Peck (University of Sussex)

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English

Cambridge University Press
13 July 2023

Theatre direction & production; Feminism & feminist theory; Gay & Lesbian studies

Series: Elements in Women Theatre Makers

This is a love story but not as you know it. Should an academic study be framed in this way? Love seems an unlikely bedfellow for critical thinking. Watching an Emma Rice production and being in her rehearsal room you feel the love: a warm and generous welcoming in; a joyful celebration of the theatrical exchange. What produces this pleasurable affect and how might we consider its political potential? This Element positions Emma's theatre-making, a body of work spanning three decades, as feminist acts of love. Drawing on fieldwork research her practice is viewed through the critical lenses of feminisms and affect to consider its contextual tensions, its ethics of affirmation, staging of femininities and contribution to queer worldmaking. Mapping her work from this perspective brings to light her important contribution to UK feminist theatre; its love activism offering an emergent strategy for change.

By: Lisa Peck (University of Sussex)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009287227
ISBN 10: 1009287222
Series: Elements in Women Theatre Makers
Pages: 75
Publication Date: 13 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. Feminist Underpinnings: Beside Thinking; 3. Affecting Practice: Ethics of Affirmation; 4. Affecting Femininities: The Principle of Not One; 5. Affecting Queer World Making: Casting; 6. Conclusion: Feminist Acts of Love, An Emergent Strategy; Appendix; References.