xii, 260 p. : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : Women, theatre and performance : auto/biography and performance / Maggie B. Gale and Viv Gardner -- The three nobodies : autobiographical strategies in the work of Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion and Ina Rozant / Viv Gardner -- The disappearing subject in Susan Glaspell's auto-biographical theatre / Nicola Shaughnessy -- Imag(in)ing a life : Adrienne Kennedy's People who led to my plays and Deadly triplets / Elaine Aston -- The way to the world : Emma Robinson and the dilemmas of identity / Susan Croft -- Lena Ashwell and auto/biographical negotiations of the professional self / Maggie B. Gale -- Tilly Wedekind and Lulu : the role of her life or the role in her life? / Bella Merlin -- Troubling identities : Claire Dowies's Why is John Lennon wearing a skirt? / Gabriele Griffin -- Latina theatre and performance : acts of exposure / Caridad Svich -- Being her : presence, absence and performance in the art of Janet Cardiff and Tracey Emin / Jen Harvie -- Performing lesbians ; constructing the self, constructing the community / Deirdre Heddon -- Re(ci)pertoires of the self : autobiographical aspects of Bobby Baker's performance works ; Bobby Baker in interview / Catharine McLean-Hopkins

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