Contents -- Introduction: Lives in Play -- I. Autobiography: The Body and Self in Performance -- 1. Performative Lives, Performed Selves: Autobiography in Feminist Performance -- 2. Autobiography and the Rhetoric of the Embodied Self -- 3. The Autobiographical Play and the Death of the Playwright: Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis -- II. Biography: Staging Women's Lives -- 4. Staging Women's Lives, Staging Feminist Performances -- 5. A Life in the (Meta)Theater: Writing/Rehearsing/Acting Out -- 6. Performing Race and the Object of Biography -- Conclusion: Performing Global Lives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.