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The Way We Were (Are): Directing Memory, Gender And Identity In Emma Donghue's Ladies And Gentlemen, Kathryn J. O'Donnell

Theses and Dissertations

This paper summarizes my research, my script analysis, and the rehearsal process for my production of Ladies and Gentlemen by Emma Donaghue at the University of North Dakota during the fall term of 1999 - 2000. My aim is to explore the particular tensions at play in Donaghue's use of postmodern techniques and traditional narrative style from a director's point of view. The focus of the paper is on the themes of gender, memory, and identity as the site of these tensions. Jeanette R. Malkin's Memory-Theatre and Postmodern Drama offered a methodology in which to examine these themes, while Harold …