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IIPA

Search IIPA for reviews of performances using keywords:

"Donja R. Love" AND "Sugar in Our Wounds"

"Lucas Hnath" AND "A Doll's House, Part 2"

International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) - (Proquest)
Citations and abstracts for 200 international performing arts periodicals from 1998 forward. Includes retrospective citations from about 46 periodicals.

Kenneth Campbell Theatre Library

Visit Theatre VCU's library of donated scripts, plays, drama books and media. Shafer Street Playhouse, 3rd floor. Contact the Theatre VCU for contacts or appointments. Regular hours vary each semester.

Your Librarian

Carla-Mae Crookendale

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Contact:

cmcrookendale@vcu.edu
(804) 827-0367
Cabell Library, Room 121-L

Subjects: Arts, Performing, Arts, Visual

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Sugar in Our Wounds

Sugar in Our Wounds

Publication date: 2018
Playwright: Donja R. Love
Summary: Romance develops between two enslaved men
Setting: a plantation during the Civil War

Sugar in Our Wounds (official website)
Includes cast bios, performance photos and video.

The Routledge History of Queer America
Call Number: Access Online
Features chapter 13 "Centering Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Queer History (1800s–1890s)"

Music of the Civil War Era
Call Number: Access Online
As divisive and destructive as the Civil War was, the era nevertheless demonstrated the power that music could play in American culture. This volume presents narrative chapters that recount the many vibrant roles of music during this troubled period of American history.
Includes a chapter on "African Americans in Civil War Music"

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
More than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
Presents the history of slavery alongside efforts and actions to end it, drawing from thousands of documents, some very rare, in a comprehensive, conceptual, and global way.

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(1500 - 1865) VCU access only

Virginia Untold
This resource provides online access to a substantial number of documents connected with Virginians of African descent.

Civil War Primary Sources from the Civil War Trust
Gateway to a range of sources on the U.S. Civil War.

Photos of Slave Quarters (DPLA)

Doll's House Part 2

Doll's House Part 2

Publication date: 2017

Playwright: Lucas Hnath

Summary: The play picks up after Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" concludes.

Setting: Norway, 1894

Women, Modernism, and Performance
Call Number: PN1590.W64 F37 2004
Features a chapter "From Hedda Gabler to Votes for Women: Elizabeth Robins's Early Feminist Critique of Ibsen"

The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen
Call Number: PT8895 .C27 1994
Explores Ibsen's life and work. Among the thematic topics are discussions of Ibsen's comedy, realism, lyric poetry and feminism.

Nineteenth-Century Woman: Her Cultural and Physical World
Call Number: Access Online
Draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century.

Fashion, 1890-1899 (FIT Fashion History Timeline)
An overview of the womenswear and menswear of the decade with many illustrations.

Harper's Bazaar (1867-1912)
Early issues of the American women's fashion magazine catering to the middle and upper classes.
It includes editorials on many social topics of the time, including marriage, divorce and women's suffrage.

Dramaturgy Books

The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy
Call Number: Access Online
Publication Date: 2015
Surveys the field through eight main lenses: world dramaturgy and global perspective dramaturgy as function, verb and skill dramaturgical leadership and season planning production dramaturgy in translation adaptation and new play development interdisciplinary dramaturgy play analysis in postdramatic and new media dramaturgy social media and audience outreach.

Ghost Light: an introductory handbook for dramaturgy
Call Number: Access Online
Publication Date: 2010
Part 1, "Philosophy," describes what dramturgs do, presents a history of dramaturgy, and summarizes critical theories. Part 2, "Analysis" teaches the two essential skills of a dramaturg: reading and writing. Part 3, "Practice," offers advice about collaborating with other artists.
Also in print: PN2053 .C428 2010

The Art of Active Dramaturgy
Call Number: PN2053 .B727 2011
Each chapter includes ways to approach so-called old plays or set texts (think Shakespeare or Pinter or Parks) and then takes it up a notch to show how to use those skills when working on new plays.

Theatre Citations

MLA Citation - Perdue OWL

How do I cite the script and performance of a play? (MLA Style Center)
The script of a play and each performance of it are different works and should be cited separately.

How do I cite a performance I watched in person? (MLA Style center)

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