Spiderwoman Theater Bibliography

Plays, Publications, Criticism, and Reviews

Published Plays

"Winnetous's Snake-Oil Show from Wigwam City." Playwrights of Color. Ed. Meg Swanson with Robin Murray. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1999. 69-105.
"Power Pipes." Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays. Ed. Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1999. 149-200.
"Sun, Moon, and Feather." Contemporary Plays by Women of Color: An Anthology. Ed. Kathy A. Perkins and Roberto Uno. London: Routledge, 1996. 299-309.
"Winnetou's Snake-Oil Show from Wigwam City." Canadian Theatre Review 68 (1991): 54-63.
"Reverb-ber-ber-ations." Women and Performance 5.2 (1992): 184-212.

Panelists

Lemon, Andrea, Sarah Cathcart, June Mills, Lisa Mayo, Gloria Miguel, Muriel Miguel, and Melinda Bobis. "New Storytellers from America, Australia, and teh Philippines Discuss Their Working Processes, Performance Techniques, and Their Source Material." Third International Women Playwrights Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 1995. Australian Feminist Studies no. 21 (1995): 39-54.
"Pioneer and First Generation Women Playwrights." In International Women Playwrights: Voices of Identity and Transformation. Proceedings of the First International Women Playwrights Conference, October 18-23, 1988. Ed. Anna Kay France and P. J. Corso. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1993. Pp. 15-25.
"Myth, Legend and Ritual in Plays by Women." In International Women Playwrights: Voices of Identity and Transformation. Proceedings of the First International Women Playwrights Conference, October 18-23, 1988. Ed. Anna Kay France and P. J. Corso. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1993. Pp. 104-20.
"Issues of Race and Class." In International Women Playwrights: Voices of Identity and Transformation. Proceedings of the First International Women Playwrights Conference, October 18-23, 1988. Ed. Anna Kay France and P. J. Corso. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1993. Pp. 172-88.

Lectures

Gloria Miguel. "Plastic Shamans: New Age Feminism." Lecture, University of Illinois, October 2, 1996. Audiotape in NAWPA. Gift of Ann Haugo.
Spiderwoman Theater. "Storyweaving: Storytelling, Oral Tradition, and Collecctive Creation." Lecture, University of Illinois, October 2, 1996. Audiotape. Gift of Ann Haugo to NAWPA.

Interviews and Statements

Mayo, Lisa, Gloria Miguel, and Muriel Miguel. "Spiderwoman Theater and the Tapestry of Story." Conducted by Larry Abbott. 16, no. 1 (1996): 165-180. Online: http://www.brandonu.ca/Library/CJNS/16.1/abbott.pdf.
Muriel Miguel and Charlotte Canning. 26 April 1990. Seattle, Washington, Group Theater owned apartment. (Used over several pages in Charlotte Canning, Feminist Theaters in the U.S.A.: Staging Women's Experience (London: Routledge, 1996).
"Spiderwoman Theater." Contemporary Plays by Women of Color: An Anthology. Ed. Kathy A. Perkins and Roberto Uno. London: Routledge, 1996. 297-98.
Mayo, Lisa. "Secrets: A Conversation with Lisa Mayo of Spiderwoman Theater." Conducted by Judy Burns and Jerri Hurlbutt. Women and Performance 5.2 (1992): 166-83.
Mayo, Lisa. Interview with Ann Haugo. Native Playwrights' Newsletter 7 (1995): 86-91 and 8 (1995): 45-57.

Criticism

Canning, Charlotte. Feminist Theaters in the U.S.A.: Staging Women's Experience. London: Routledge, 1996. Significant treatment of ST; see esp. pp. 93-99.
Canning, Charlotte. Review of Acting Out: Feminist Performances, edited by Lynda Hart and Peggy Phelan. TDR 39.4 (1995): 200-201.
Case, Sue-Ellen. Feminism and Theatre. New York: Methuen, 1988.
Cody, Gabrielle. "Ngarnna Taikunrra in the Land of the Dreamtime. The 3rd International Women Playwrights Conference, 3-10 July 1994, Adelaide, Australia." TDR 39.1 (1995): 62-74. See pp. 66-67.
Contemporary Plays by Women of Color. Ed. Kathy A. Perkins and Roberto Uno. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Crimmins, Sandy. "Spiderwoman Theater: A Stage Manager's Notes." American Writing: A Magazine no. 13 (1996): 43-50. Crimmins worked with Spiderwoman Theater in their early years and then again in the mid-1990s.
Dolan, Jill. The Feminist Spectator as Critic. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1988.
Gould, Charlene Jeanette Burton. "Feminist Theatre for Working-Class Audiences in the United States." Dissertation, University of Kansas, 1995.
Hayes, Jacqueline Genevieve. "Representations of Utopia: The Politics of Women's Group Theatres, 1969-1992." Dissertation, New York University, 1994.
Martin, Kallen. "Spiderwoman Theatre." Akwesasne Notes ns. 1, no. 3-4 (1995): 133-36.
Parnes, Uzi. "Pop Performance, Four Seminal Influences: The Work of Jack Smith, Tom Murrin--The Alien Comic, Ethyl Eichelberger, and the Split Britches Company (New York)." Dissertation, New York University, 1988.
Schneider, Rebecca. "See the Big Show: Spiderwoman Theater Doubling Back." In Acting Out: Feminist Performances. Eds. Lynda Hart and Peggy Phelan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993, pp. 227-55.
Wolper, Andrea. "Women And Theatre: The Companies They Keep." Back Stage 26 April-2 May, 1996: 24-28.
"Women's Theatre Companies." Back Stage 26 April-2 May, 1996: 29-30.

Reviews

Grilikes, Alexandra. "Spiderwoman's Changing Face: A Performance Review." American Writing: A Magazine no. 13 (1996): 51-53. Reprinted from After Dark (Philadelphia) Nov. 25, 1992.
Clark, Laurie Beth. Review of "Power Pipes," by Spiderwoman Theater. High Performance 57 (1992): 56.
Dolan, Jill. Review of "Winnetou's Snake-Oil Show from Wigwam City," by Spiderwoman Theater. Theatre Journal 42 (1990): 364-65.
Solomon, Alisa. "Tangled Web." Village Voice 19 March 1985. [Cited in Canning]
Nicholls, Jill. Review of Spider Woman Theater Company, "Spare Rib," n.d. [Cited in Canning]
Kotschenreuther, Hellmut. "Lysistratissima!" Der Tagesspiegel 31 October 1982. [Cited in Canning]
Neff, Renreu. "Spiderwoman Theater." Other Stages 5 (May 1983): ? [Cited in Canning]
Scott, Adrienne, and Sophia Mirviss. "The Incredible Spiderwoman." Womannews April 1980: ? [Cited in Canning]
Outlaw, Marpessa Dawn. "Cameos. Power Pipes." Village Voice 3 Nov. 1992: 114.

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