Girls' bodies, drama and unruliness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15081024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Ramsay (Drama, University of Manchester, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 373-383 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in Drama Education The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9783 • E-ISSN: 1470-112X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569783.2014.954817 |
| OpenAlex | W2049791547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article examines some of the performance outcomes from a practised-based research project that took place with adolescent girls attending an after-school drama club. Participants experimented with slapstick humour in a series of workshops, before presenting their own devised physical comedy performance for a live audience. Comic performances are explored in relation to the opposition between comedy and what is coded as appropriate feminine behaviour, and those current regimes of gender that encourage girls to discipline and control the body in pursuit of a feminine ideal. Through detailed analysis of girls' practical endeavours, and by privileging their personal observations and reflections on working in the style, I argue that slapstick enabled girls to make unruly experiments with the body that allowed normative conceptions of gender to be temporally undone. However, I also reflect on how this emancipatory process was troubled when girls watched recordings of the work and became spectators to their own transgression
Aesthetics · Art · Comedy · Comics · Drama · Epistemology · Literature · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |