Gender bias in theatre.
Mon, 29 June 2009, 09:43 amgrantwatson30 posts in thread
Gender bias in theatre.
Mon, 29 June 2009, 09:43 amThere is a great article here about gender bias in American theatre, where the majority of plays staged are by male authors. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about the findings presented in the article.
Do you think there's a problem of gender bias here in Australia? What can we do? What should we do?
Something I've done more
Mon, 29 June 2009, 10:49 amSomething I've done more than once in my own writing is write the play, and then spontaneously swap the genders of half the characters, then re-read it to see if it still reads sensibly. If it does (and it almost always does), then I leave it with the new re-assigned genders.
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