Understudy-ied Theatre History: Recent Episodes
Dara Willmarth and Colleen Rooney
Hosted by Dara Willmarth and Colleen Rooney, Understudy-ied Theatre History: A Short Survey of Playwrights Lost to History is a podcast that aims to rediscover and bring to the mainstream women playwrights who traditionally the theatrical performance canon ignores. Join us for this short survey, maybe to be continued?
For the final episode of this season of Understudy-ied Theatre History, Colleen and Dara focus on Aphra Behn. Somehow, Queen gets in there also.
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Music by Tri-Tachyon
Bibliography
Bell, Maureen. ""Literary Pimping" or Business as Usual? Aphra Behn and the Book Trade." Women's Writing : The Elizabethan to Victorian Period 2020. Pp 275-93.
Kreis-Schinck, Annette. Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period : The Plays of Aphra Behn and Suzanne Centlivre. Madison, N.J. London: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, Associated UPes, 2001.
Wiseman, Susan. Aphra Behn. Plymouth, Northcote House in Association with the British Council, 1996.
This week we dive into the history of one of Ireland's most prolific female playwrights. Lady Gregory was a cofounder of the Abbey Theatre, playwright, and producer from the time of the Irish Literary Revival.
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Bibliography
Merritt, Henry. "'Dead many times': Cathleen ni Houlihan, Yeats, two old women, and a vampire." The Modern Language Review, vol. 96, no. 3, 2001, p. 644. Gale Academic OneFile.
Mikhail, E. H., editor. The Abbey Theatre : Interviews and Recollections. Totowa, N.J. Barnes & Noble, 1988.
Morash, Chris. A History of Irish Theatre, 1601-2000. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge UP, 2002.
Roche, Anthony. "Lady Gregory: Irish Woman Playwright." The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899–1939. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015, pp. 99–118.
Welcome to episode 1 of Understudy-ied Theatre History! Enjoy 13 minutes of content focusing on the women that were left out of your theatre history classes. This episode features Regina Anderson Andrews, a playwright, librian, and community builder from the Harlem Renassance.
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The Kilroys
Music by Tri-Tachyon
Bibliography
Macki, Adrienne C. “(Re)constructing Community and Identity: Harlem Experimental Theatre and Social Protest.”
Whitmire, Ethelene. Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian, University of Illinois Press, 2014.
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, vol. 20, no. 2, 2008, pp. 107-140.
Wilson, Katherine. “Theatre Near Us: Librarians, Culture, and Space in the Harlem Renaissance.” Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul: Transformative Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom, edited by Christina Davis Acampora and Angela L. Cotton, State University of New York Press, 2007, pp. 231-245.