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?
I'm not saying I don't do
Mon, 29 June 2009, 02:32 pmI'm not saying I don't do rewrites once I've changed the characters!
A lot of it comes down to the actor as well. I was in a production of Hamlet once with a female Horatio, and the same lines develop a very different feel when performed by a woman. That's just one example. Richard III is another.
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