Jan Needle

Stephen Cockett

Vivien Gardner

Based on the shcool strikes of 1911, this text studies the issue of children's rights and the resource material.

The Rebels of Gas Street

Linda Fitzsimmons

Between 1890 and 1914, the burgeoning feminist movement that culminated in the militancy of the suffragettes encouraged an increasing number of women to use theatre to explore women's experience. This book features some of these plays, including Elizabeth Robin's "Alan's Wife".

New Woman Plays

This play tells the story of Falkland Islands children who find an escaped Argentenian solder. The original novel is also available in Collins Cascades.

A Game of Soldiers

Maggie B B. Gale

Viv Gardner

Arguing that women use autobiography and performance for expression and as a means of controlling their public and private selves, the contributors of these 11 essays examine the lives and work of a variety of artists ranging from actors as working women in the eighteenth century to monologists and performance artists today. Subjects include several performers, including Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion, Ina Rozant, Susan Glaspell, Adrienne Kennedy, Emma Robinson, Lena Ashwell, Tilly Wedekind, Clare Dowie, Janet Cardiff, Tracey Emin, and, in an interview, Bobby Baker, as well as essays on Latina theater and lesbians as performers constructing themselves and their community. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Women, Theatre and Performance

Auto/Biography and Identity

This play looks at themes of reputation, honesty and lying in a school setting. The volume provides opportunities to explore ideas of personal honesty through role play and discussion and provides lively end-material covering a variety of issues such as having a family member in gaol.

Vivien Gardner

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