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Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction - Women, theatre and performance: Auto/biography and performance - Maggie B. Gale & Viv Gardner Part 1: Telling tales: Autobiographic strategies 1. The three nobodies: Autobiographical strategies in the work of Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion and Ina Rozant - Viv Gardner 2. The disappearing subject in Susan Glaspell's auto/biographical theatre - Nicola Shaugnessy Imag(in)ing a life: Adrienne Kennedy's People Who Led to My Plays and Deadly Triplets - Elaine Aston Part 2: The professional/confessional self 3. The way to the world: Emma Robinson and the dilemmas of identity - Susan Croft 4. Lena Ashwell and auto/biographical negotiations of the professional self - Maggie B. Gale 5. Tilly Wedekind and Lulu: The role of her life or the role in her life? - Bella Merlin 6. Troubling identities: Claire Dowie's Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? - Gabriele Griffin Part 3: Auto/biography. Identity and performance 7. Latina theatre and performance: Acts of exposure - Caridad Svich 8. Being her: presence, absence and performance in the art of Janet Cardiff and Tracy Emin - Jen Harvie 9. Peforming lesbians: Constructing the self, constructing the community - Dee Heddon 10. Re(ci)petoires of the self: Autobiographical aspects of Bobby Baker's performance works. Bobby Baker interview - Catharine Maclean Hopkins

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