Echo’s Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude by Mary Noonan (review)

This book explores the predominance of the auditory in contemporary French theatre by Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Hélène Cixous, and Nicole Renaude. It offers excellent, well-documented readings of major productions of each playwright’s work but suffers from a lack of sustained argument concerning two key concepts: “the feminine” and “voice.”