Laura Hope and Philippa Kelly make use of first-hand interviews with directors, actors, designers, and critics, as well as their own experiences in the theatre, to open up feminist dramaturgy as a field of enquiry and performance possibility. Resisting dogma, the authors cast a critical eye on past and present practices as they argue for the feminist dramaturg's role in shaping a theatre company's sense of its production potential.

Laura Hope is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Loyola University New Orleans and Philippa Kelly is Resident Dramaturg at the California Shakespeare Theater, USA.