Introduction

the discourse of the body

Scott T. Cummings

pp. 1-16

in: Scott T. Cummings, Erica Stevens Abbitt (eds), The theatre of Naomi Wallace, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

Over the past 25 years, Naomi Wallace has established herself as a major contemporary dramatist whose work combines political engagement, stylistic innovation, and erotically charged lyricism in a unique and compelling manner. She has garnered international attention, won prestigious awards, and received numerous commissions from major theatres. Her plays have been produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, the Public Theater and New York Theatre Workshop, the Comédie-Française and the Festival d"Avignon, and by regional and provincial theatres on three continents. They have also found favor with fringe theatre groups looking to make their mark and university theatre departments interested in challenging their students with work that examines the relationship between identity and power. Her plays are taught in college drama courses and analyzed from a variety of theoretical perspectives by theatre scholars. She is an original and provocative voice in the theatre of our time.

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