Clean Break Theatre Company (Elements in Women Theatre Makers)

By: Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sarah Bartley and Deborah Dean and Anne-marie Greene

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Synopsis: Clean Break Theatre Company is a women-only theatre company that grew out of a prisoner-led drama workshop that took place between 1977–1979 in HMP Askham Grange. In addition to its considerable impact on criminalised women and public understandings of the socio-political impact of their experiences, Clean Break has had a significant but under-acknowledged impact on contemporary British theatre. We examine three areas of Clean Break's theatre making history and organisational practices: its origin stories; its education and engagement work; and how the company's performance practices have, across five decades, 'then' and 'now', adapted to directly intervene in carceral society. By highlighting Clean Break's distinct activist theatre making processes and practices, the book makes explicit the genealogical connections of the company's past work and its impacts on contemporary feminist theatre practices.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781009525879
Related ISBNs:: 9781009525893
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 10/17/24
Copyrighted By:: Caoimhe McAvinchey, Sarah Bartley, Deborah Dean and Anne-marie Greene
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.