caa a22 4500 388109289 CHVBK 20180307125348.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S030788330001909X doi S030788330001909X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S030788330001909X Aston Elaine Geographies of Oppression—The Cross-Border Politics of (M)othering: The Break of Day and A Yearning [Elektronische Daten] [Elaine Aston] In the autumn of 1995 the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, UK, staged two plays which offer a dramatic treatment of the politics of motherhood: Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Break of Day (Haymarket Mainhouse, first performance 26 October 1995) and Ruth Carter's A Yearning (Haymarket Studio, 31 October to 4 November 1995). Neither play had significant box-office success, and The Break of Day received poor and hostile reviews from (male) critics, many of whom, like Paul Taylor for The Independent, commented on the play as a dramatization of ‘how the maternal drive can cause women to betray orthodox feminism'. My counter argument is that by addressing infertility as a feminist issue for the 1990s, both plays index the need to re-conceive a politics of motherhood in an international arena, highlighting the ways in which the biological contours of women's lives are globally mapped with the specificities of social, material and cultural geographies. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1999 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/3(1999), 247-253 0307-8833 24:3<247 1999 24 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S030788330001909X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S030788330001909X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Aston Elaine NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/3(1999), 247-253 0307-8833 24:3<247 1999 24 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge