ISBN 0-571-19140-1
edited by Lizbeth Goodman
Faber & Faber 2000

This wide-ranging international collection of plays and performance pieces by women includes work by the following authors:

Lizbeth Goodman, Director of the Institute for New Media Performance Research and Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Surrey, has carefully selected the pieces around the notion of 'real' and 'mythic' women. Her comprehensive introduction illustrates the diversity of form and content in the work, explores the relationship between gender and power, and considers ways in which women are looked at and look at themselves, both in writing and in performance.

Mythic Women/Real Women provides a wealth of performance pieces for women as well as being a provocative and fascinating primer for women's studies and theatre studies.

Cover image designed by Pentagram.
Photographs from top to bottom, courtesy Alexander Straulino, Peter Kaus, Mark Wotjanowski, Kenneth Willardt, Bea Bug.

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