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Chiocca Renato - Staging Violence Against Women And Girls Plays And Interviews - Paperback
Chiocca Renato - Staging Violence Against Women And Girls Plays And Interviews - Paperback
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Description: Staging Violence Against Women and Girls brings together three contemporary plays that denounce gendered violence along with interviews with their creators and the practitioners who have staged them in different national contexts. Little Stitches (London 2014): consisting of four short pieces by Isley Lynn Ra l Quir's Molina Bahar Brunton and Karis E. Halsall this play presents Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting (FGM/ C) from the points of view of by - standers anti - FGM/ C activists health professionals women who perpetuatethe practice and finally survivors. Kubra (Sydney 2016): written by Dacia Maraini this short play features a young woman who was subjected to FGM/ C as a child and now years later brings her case to court in a search for justice. A Trial for Rape (Rome 2018): adapted for theatre by Renato Chiocca from the international award - winning 1979 documentary of the same name this play reveals how judicial procedures and attitudes toward sexual violence tend to turn rape survivors from accusers into accused. In their interviews the writers directors and producers discuss their conception and production of the works collected in Staging Violence Against Women and Girls. The plays and their creators highlight the urgency of raising awareness of these forms of violence and giving voice to survivors.
Title: Staging Violence Against Women And Girls Plays And Interviews
Author(s): Chiocca Renato, Dr Claire (Griffith University. Australia) Kennedy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350329706
Pages: 176 Pages, 11 Bw Illus
Publication Date: 4/6/2023
Category: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights
Description: Staging Violence Against Women and Girls brings together three contemporary plays that denounce gendered violence along with interviews with their creators and the practitioners who have staged them in different national contexts. Little Stitches (London 2014): consisting of four short pieces by Isley Lynn Ra l Quir's Molina Bahar Brunton and Karis E. Halsall this play presents Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting (FGM/ C) from the points of view of by - standers anti - FGM/ C activists health professionals women who perpetuatethe practice and finally survivors. Kubra (Sydney 2016): written by Dacia Maraini this short play features a young woman who was subjected to FGM/ C as a child and now years later brings her case to court in a search for justice. A Trial for Rape (Rome 2018): adapted for theatre by Renato Chiocca from the international award - winning 1979 documentary of the same name this play reveals how judicial procedures and attitudes toward sexual violence tend to turn rape survivors from accusers into accused. In their interviews the writers directors and producers discuss their conception and production of the works collected in Staging Violence Against Women and Girls. The plays and their creators highlight the urgency of raising awareness of these forms of violence and giving voice to survivors.
Title: Staging Violence Against Women And Girls Plays And Interviews
Author(s): Chiocca Renato, Dr Claire (Griffith University. Australia) Kennedy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350329706
Pages: 176 Pages, 11 Bw Illus
Publication Date: 4/6/2023
Category: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights
