three decades of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Greene, Alexis > (ed.)
- Creator
- Kilgore, Emilie S. > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER54 2006
- Thesaurus
- toneelschrijvers, gender, feminisme, prijzen, wereld, biografische gegevens, interview (vorm), opstel, bundel
- Description
- Women's playwriting burgeoned in the United States and the United Kingdom as part of the feminist movement of the 1970s. Ever since, playwriting women have been embracing new subjects, experimenting with form and devising new ways of looking at the world. Susan Smith Blackburn was an actress, journalist and feminist. More then threehundred English-speaking women playwrights have been finalists for the Prize in her name, including Marsha Norman, Cheryl L. West, Wendy Wasserstein, Caryl Churchill, Paula Vogel, and Suzan-Lori Parks. This volume contains essays, playwrights' memoirs and conversations and interviews with playwrights to explore how women's playwriting evolved in relation to the women's movement.