Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
#1Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/1/13 at 8:57pm
Hey guys, I am teaching a Gender and Politics in Theatre class this summer and would love to get your opinions on what some good recent plays (written in the last five years or so) that deal with gender, sexuality and political issues. I could possibly include as part of the class. Thanks!
Updated On: 5/1/13 at 08:57 PM
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#3Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/1/13 at 9:04pmPicasso at the lapine agile
#4Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/1/13 at 9:17pmSpeech and Debate is a prime example.
#5Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/1/13 at 9:19pm
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#6Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/1/13 at 9:19pm
Do you mean gender politics?
Sarah Treem's "The How and The Why."
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#7Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/1/13 at 9:28pmDon't think it was a particularly good play but the recent Mamet play NOVEMBER dealt with a lot of those issues in a farcical kind of way.
#8Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/1/13 at 9:49pmI second David Mamet's NOVEMBER.
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#9Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/1/13 at 9:55pmTake Me Out is very timely.
#10Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/1/13 at 11:22pm
GOOD PEOPLE has some wonderful takes on class issues, mostly, but politics and gender (and race) all play a part.
THE MOUNTAINTOP also indirectly touches on all of these issues.
#11Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/1/13 at 11:38pm
The recent Really Really would be a good one to look at- unfortunately, I doubt it'll be published by the summer.
Of those previously mentioned, I'd say Venus in Fur would be the strongest choice in re: gender politics.
Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play. Or In The Next Room. Both deal heavily with gender and sexuality (Passion Play incorporates a bit of politics as well).
Speech & Debate by Stephen Karam touches upon all three topics.
And of course there is Ruined.
#12Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/2/13 at 5:23pm
Can you make room for a play from 20 years ago?
LOW LEVEL PANIC by English playwright, Clare McIntyre, provoked stronger gender-based reactions than any play I ever taught. Various groups of students produced three or four productions of the play while I was teaching it.
There's nothing in it that isn't still relevant today.
(BTW, it's available in print with another play, MY HEART'S A SUITCASE, and the book is often listed under this other title.)
Updated On: 5/2/13 at 05:23 PM
#13Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/2/13 at 5:41pmMuch older than 20 years, but howabout Cloud 9?
#14Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/6/13 at 6:00pmI third David Mamet's NOVEMBER.
#15Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/6/13 at 6:59pm
Mamet's Oleanna?
Updated On: 5/6/13 at 06:59 PM
#16Modern plays that deal with gender and politics
Posted: 5/6/13 at 7:01pmOLEANNA is to be avoided like the plague, if you ask me. Mamet rigs the "argument" between his characters so the prig of a professor comes to seem reasonable while the young woman turns out to be Psycho-bitch!
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