WOMENTHEATRENET - Women'sTransnationalTheatreNetworks,1789-1914

WOMENTHEATRENET - 女性跨国剧院网络，1789-1914

• 批准号: EP/Y029364/1
• 负责人: Katherine Newey
• 金额: $ 253.44万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY029364%2F1
• 关键词: WOMENTHEATRENET; Women; sTransnationalTheatreNetworks; 1789; 1914

What would a history of 19th-century Western theatre look like if the work of women were placed at its centre? WOMENTHEATRENET poses this fundamental question to effect a paradigm shift in the historiography of mainstream western theatre in the long 19th century. The current state of knowledge suggests that women have always been active in the theatre, but their work has been obscured by gendered and classed hierarchies of aesthetic value, and entrenched practices of documentation. The agency and innovation of women's work is minimised, and women's cultural networks regarded as subordinate to networks of powerful male practitioners. This state of the art is exacerbated by the dominance of national theatre histories and élite institutions in most theatre historiography. WOMENTHEATRENET will make women's theatre work visible through a series of exemplary case studies of the interlinked theatrical cultures of Britain, Ireland, Australia and India, which will investigate and make visible transnational female-centred networks of creative and intellectual exchange. These case studies will be complemented by a study of women's exchanges and networks in Britain and France. The research team, together with a scholarly network of invited Visiting Fellows, will analyse the conditions of women's theatre work as a form of cultural citizenship, within practices of exchange, circulation, translation, and adaptation, in mainstream commercial theatre and 'paratheatrical' practices. WOMENTHEATRENET will examine archival data of women's theatre work in a) the popular and mainstream theatre (including translation and adaptation); b) paratheatrical work (performances outside established theatre spaces); and c) writing for and about the theatre, in the transnational and imperial networks of the 19th century. The research will be disseminated through book-length publications, articles, a research through practice programme, and international scholarly meetings.

如果女性的作品被置于其中心位置，那么19世纪西方戏剧史会是什么样子？《女人剧院网》提出了这一基本问题，以实现漫长的19世纪西方主流戏剧史学的范式转变。目前的知识状况表明，妇女一直活跃在戏剧界，但她们的工作却被审美价值的性别和等级制度以及根深蒂固的文献惯例所掩盖。妇女工作的代理和创新被最小化，妇女的文化网络被视为从属于强大的男性从业者网络。国家戏剧史和精英机构在大多数戏剧史学中的主导地位加剧了这种艺术状态。WOMENTHEATRENET将通过对英国、爱尔兰、澳大利亚和印度相互关联的戏剧文化进行一系列示范性个案研究，使妇女的戏剧工作得到宣传，这些研究将调查和宣传以妇女为中心的跨国创造性和知识交流网络。这些个案研究将得到对英国和法国妇女交流和网络的研究的补充。该研究小组将与一个由受邀访问学者组成的学术网络一起，在主流商业戏剧和“准戏剧”实践中，在交流、传播、翻译和改编的实践中，分析妇女戏剧工作作为文化公民身份形式的条件。WOMENTHEATRENET将审查妇女戏剧作品的档案数据，这些作品包括：a）大众和主流戏剧（包括翻译和改编）; B）准戏剧作品（在现有戏剧场所之外的表演）; c）为戏剧写作和关于戏剧写作，在世纪的跨国和帝国网络中。将通过出版物、文章、实践研究方案和国际学术会议传播研究成果。