Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines: Woman's Work

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Jessica Silsby Brater (Visiting Assistant Professor & Theater Program Director, University of New Haven, USA) Prof. Enoch Brater (University of Michigan, USA)

Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines

Woman's Work

Jessica Silsby Brater (Visiting Assistant Professor & Theater Program Director, University of New Haven, USA), Prof. Enoch Brater (University of Michigan, USA), Mark Taylor-Batty (University of Leeds, UK)

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Methuen Drama
25 February 2016

Theatre: individual actors & directors; Theatre direction & production

Series: Methuen Drama Engage

Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech’s work, Jessica Brater’s companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist.

Tracing Maleczech’s background, training, and influences, the volume contextualizes her work and the founding of Mabou Mines within the wider landscape of American avant-garde theatre. It considers her performances and productions, revealing both her interest in making ordinary women important onstage, and her predilection for resurrecting extraordinary women from history and finding their resonances within a contemporary theatrical context.

Brater considers Maleczech’s investment in redrawing the boundaries of what women are allowed to say, both on stage and off, and shows how her commitment to radical artistic and production risks has reshaped the contours of a contemporary theatrical experience.

Highlights of the volume include discussion of productions such as Mabou Mines’ Lear, Dead End Kids, Hajj, Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, Red Beads, and La Divina Caricatura, as well as a close look at Maleczech’s final work-in-progress, Imagining the Imaginary Invalid.

By: Jessica Silsby Brater (Visiting Assistant Professor & Theater Program Director University of New Haven USA)
Series edited by: Prof. Enoch Brater (University of Michigan USA), Mark Taylor-Batty (University of Leeds, UK)
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 348g
ISBN: 9781472578822
ISBN 10: 1472578821
Series: Methuen Drama Engage
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 25 February 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Three Great Teachers and an Unconventional Education Chapter Two: Ordinary Women Chapter Three: Extraordinary Women Chapter Four: Family Drama Chapter Five: Mothers and Daughters Conclusion Notes Index

Jessica Silsby Brater works in the Department of Theatre at Barnard College, New York, USA, and serves as a Teaching Artist at the Marymount School Drama Department in New York City. She is the founding Artistic Director of the Brooklyn-based company Polybe + Seats and holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.

Reviews for Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines: Woman's Work

Jessica Silsby Brater's important Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines: Woman's Work is the first book devoted to the work of the legendary performer and director ... The book offers not biography but rather a historicized thematic structure that provides illuminating connections between works ... Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines: Woman's Work makes a significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship on female artists who helped to found group theatres in the 1960s and 1970s and who have created in those groups influential interdisciplinary performances. * Modern Drama *