By J. Komporaly
Staging Motherhood examines the degree representations of motherhood, centring on post-1956 British girls playwrights. Asking to what quantity adjustments in women's lives have impacted on women's theatre, and what recommendations were hired via ladies of their writing and appearing practices, Jozefina Komporaly examines the interactions among the private, the political and the theatrical. Contributing to quite a number discourses, together with gender experiences, cultural reviews and chiefly theatre and function experiences, this well timed quantity is important to our knowing of women's drama during this interval.
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Their opposition re-enacts the dichotomies between masculine and feminine, civilized and primitive, rational and instinctive, mind and body, culture and nature. Greta also connects herself to the figure of Lilith, Adam’s first wife who killed her babies and then gave birth to new ones: DEAN: And each Friday you dip it [her hair] in blood - in human blood. 56 Dean’s discourse on the need for morality and kindness, however, is suddenly brought to an end by the start of Greta’s birth-pains. In vain does he repeat: ‘You’re not fit to have a child.
Lessing’s and especially Jellicoe’s work, on the other hand, constitute explicit instances of innovation. Though Lessing sets her play in a naturalistic framework, she markedly stresses her intention of undermining the conventions of naturalism and switches from a plausible environment to the inner worlds of her protagonists. She explores varieties of individual freedom via Anna and Dave, juxtaposing men’s lack of accepting responsibility for fatherhood to women’s resistance to matrimony as a route towards genuine independence.
Their opposition re-enacts the dichotomies between masculine and feminine, civilized and primitive, rational and instinctive, mind and body, culture and nature. Greta also connects herself to the figure of Lilith, Adam’s first wife who killed her babies and then gave birth to new ones: DEAN: And each Friday you dip it [her hair] in blood - in human blood. 56 Dean’s discourse on the need for morality and kindness, however, is suddenly brought to an end by the start of Greta’s birth-pains. In vain does he repeat: ‘You’re not fit to have a child.
