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Examine the importance of spectatorship issues and audience dynamics in feminist approaches to performance
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I will examine the importance of spectatorship issues and audience dynamics in feminist approaches to performance by comparing a feminist piece, Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, with another piece, Ursula Martinez's OAP, where feminist issues were at work, but not the focus of the performance. I intend to demonstrate how feminist performance tries to call attention to 'the gaze' of the spectator and challenge the patriarchal organisation of culture. To begin my analysis, I must define what I mean by 'the gaze'. John Berger wrote: Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but also the relations of women to themselves. (Berger in Wolf [1990] 1991: 58). It is clear that the 'active' gaze in Berger's analysis belongs to the male (subject), and that the 'passive' object of his gaze is the female. When applying this analysis to...
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