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Lauren Gunderson and Feminist Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

Lauren Gunderson and Feminist Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

Hernando-Real, Noelia

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Series: Elements in Women Theatre Makers

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ISBN10: 1009487396
ISBN13: 9781009487399
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 11 2025
Pages: 75
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This Element is the first scholarly study of the theatre of Lauren Gunderson (b. 1982), one of the most produced US playwrights and a self-declared feminist playwright. Her feminist claims and theatrical interventions are assessed through four key strands of her theatre making: parodies of Shakespeare's canon; women-centred revisions to history; women and illness; and 'entertaining' feminism through popular theatre forms. Moving between the mainstream and the experimental, her theatre ranges from realism and quasi well-made plays to the experimental in a postmodern/Brechtian fashion, inviting consideration of the form(s) deployed for staging feminism in the twenty-first century. The Element discusses how Gunderson adapts the legacies of second-wave feminist theatre in the US to provide accessible experimental theatre and how she adopts popular genres in the interest of popular feminisms, giving way to an 'in-between' feminist practice: a feminist-theatre pathway that lies somewhere 'in between' the second-wave past and new directions.

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