Gender bias in theatre.

I've just succeeded in logging on and read the reader comments as well as the article. Makes interesting reading. Just as a matter of interest are plays less popular if the protagonist is a woman. And how many women write plays with male protagonists. My favourite woman playwright is actually Caryl Churchill for a number of reasons and she certainly focuses on women as her protagonists. I would have thought that if you are writing generally for community theatre then you should write principally for women as they certainly out number men in that area. (Please no-one take this as criticism it is a thought and an observation only). Women seem to either equal or outnumber men as directors in the world of community theatre, how do the women directors among us select the plays they do and do they feel that their audiences prefer male to female protagonists. Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au