Performing Dream Homes

Chapter 1 Introduction: Welcome Home

Chapter 2 “‘The History of America Is the History of Private Property’: The Politics of Home in Clybourne Park and Beneatha’s Place ”

Chapter 3 Home as an Activist and Feminist Stage: Women’s Performative Agency in the Drama of Susan Glaspell

Chapter 4 Home Games: Contesting Domestic Geographies in Marie Jones’s A Night in November

Chapter 5 Making Room(s): Staging Plays About Women and Houses

Chapter 6 Staging Recovery as Home Work in Rachel’s House

Chapter 7 The Making of “Attawapiskat Is No Exception”: Positions, Implications, and Affective Responses

Chapter 8 The Genius of a House: Grey Towers as Nineteenth-Century Stage for Twentieth-Century Conservationism

Chapter 9 Pitching Home: Medicine Shows and the Performance of the Domestic in Southern Appalachia

Chapter 10 Nostalgic Cartography: Performances of Hometown by Pittsburgh’s Squonk Opera and San Francisco’s Magic Bus