Friday, 29 November 2013

Reflection so far on my research

Defining the Subject Area

I am widely investigating into political, forum and feminist theatre. I am interested in researching into Feminism; the history and development of the movement in conjunction with theatre within the context of war. During a war, women’s roles and relationships within society change and I want to explore women’s ‘voice’ in the context of war through theatre. How agitprop theatre and feminist theatre has or is being used. War is a very broad area as each war is different, each country will be different and it will be dependent on what time period the war is - I understand I will need to narrow this down


Action: what am I going to do to test my research?

I am going to read and look at the books I have put in my reference pages and also find more relevant books to further my research

I will also use the internet to discover and investigate into modern feminist theatre companies used within a war context

Visit the V&A and Imperial War Museum for primary research

Conclusion

I feel I need to do more research into connecting feminist theatre with war. At the moment, I have starting points and basic knowledge of feminist theatre but haven’t applied it to the context of war enough. I need to decide how I will do this; whether I need to choose a specific culture, country or time period within war, and see what theatre exists/existed for and by women to help create the link. Or, choose a few different cultures or a few different wars which I could compare each other with? 

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