Radical Acts

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Summary

Teaching theatre and improvisation, using feminist pedagogies, to engage theatre students in deep and transformative encounters.

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Introduction : constructing a matrix of feminist teaching in and with theatre and performance	p. 7
Positioning our voices
Winnie in the attic : toward a feminist awakening in Beckett's Happy days	p. 27
An irrevocable promise : staging the story Xicana	p. 45
Playing out a past, recovering an education	p. 57
Good female parte : analyzing the culture of institutionalized theatre education	p. 69
Activating practice
"Making language" : the jazz aesthetic and feminist foundations	p. 91
Collapsible boundaries : pedagogy for a theatre of desire : an interview with Deb Margolin	p. 111
Play fair : feminist tools for teaching improv	p. 135
Feminism in the acting classroom : playful practice as process	p. 153
On the gender continuum	p. 171
No gender in the classroom : an interview with Kate Bornstein and Barbara Carrellas	p. 181
Engaging community
In search of the beloved community : engaging agents for change through freedom summer 1964	p. 201
Performing Spelman : theatre, warrior women, and a dramaturgy of liberation	p. 223
Playing it street : tales from three institutions	p. 247
Navigating dangerous waters : teens, plays, and the "feminist way" : in a traditional high school setting	p. 261
The actual lives performance project : a pedagogy of diversity, accommodation and collaboration	p. 281
Okay, princesses, let's gird up our loins! : grappling with the rules of engagement for theatre activism : an interview with Norma Bowles	p. 303
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