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Category Archives: Debate
Hashtag 52 plays by women
On Monday, a brilliant new international theatre parity advocacy call to action launches on social media: #52playsbywomen. This international campaign has been started by American writer Laura Annawyn Shamas. Could you see a play by a woman a week for … Continue reading
FEMALE ARTS Present REBELLIOUS ACTS
Female Arts in association with South Street Arts Centre celebrate five years of gender equality activism with ‘Rebellious Acts’ an evening of incendiary new writing on Saturday 14 May at South Street Arts Centre in Reading. (Book here.) Rebellious Acts features rehearsed readings … Continue reading
“Should I keep ‘Mum’?” Guest post by Roisin Rae of Prams In The Hall
Roisin Rae ponders the terminology of motherhood. Continue reading
Guest post – How visible are female playwrights?
Guest post by Lindsey Nicholas on whether there are less plays by women in the regions. Continue reading
The most inspirational women are closer to home than you might think…
A speech about inspirational women, given at International Women’s Day 2013. Continue reading
Progressive dramaturgy; a guest discussion
“the minute you walk into a play and say ‘I know what you should be and if you don’t do that you’re not a play’ then you’re missing the play that’s doing something progressive.” David Lane
What does a play look like? What about the writer whose play doesn’t look like a play? A discussion which gives the director/literary manager a way into working with the text and the writer, and the writer a way to vocalise what they might have had trouble describing. Continue reading
Country in focus – Sweden
What it’s like to be a female playwright in Sweden… an article inspired by a week at the Women Playwrights’ International Conference in Stockholm, which offers some ideas for best practice in the UK. Continue reading
Posted in 17 percent campaign, Comment, Debate, Discussion, Women playwrights, women writers
Tagged Ninna Tersman, Sweden, Swedish Theatre, WPIC2012
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Good start to the Games – now what about the legacy?
Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony was great – let’s take the positivity and inclusivity forwards. Continue reading
Posted in Debate, Discussion
Tagged Olympics 2012, Opening Ceremony Olympics, story-telling, women in drama, women in sport, women writers
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She Writes Q and A
She Writes Q and A Continue reading
Posted in Comment, Debate, Discussion, event, She Writes
Tagged advice on writing, female playwrights, Maid in Kent
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Memory Monday
Listen again to our launch debate. What can we do to get more work on by women? Continue reading →