Friday, November 07, 2008
Male Dominance in Theaters Rallies Women
Bloomberg.com: News: "Let's call this drama: Many Women Playwrights in Search of a Stage. Because if you write plays and have the wrong chromosomes, you're in for a lot of frustration in New York."
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This article mentions an article written in response to another article, all of which i've read and you know what. all those articles, i didnt find any of them particularly compelling.
yes, there are fewer plays written by women being produced and the intense lead female roles are of older women but women are so much more interesting as they age. maybe less 'beautiful' but certainly much more theatrically interesting. as far as the lack of female writers i'm not sure what to do to fix this problem but i dont think the answer is attacking the system.
It doesn't seem like there is a lack of female writers...it seems like those female writers, even those of caliber equal or higher to the male playwrights, aren't getting produced. And that does sound like a problem with the system, not the writers.
Although a quota sounds absolutely terrible at first, it might not be so bad. It would mean that producers would have to dig for new talent, as opposed to just pull what's up and coming. It's not right that we have to set quotas, but it might breed new and interesting theatre.
Obviously a touchy subject, this article brings up a lot of issues that I haven't really read about lately. It seems that there's an outburst every year around this time about how no women playwrights are getting produced. I agree with Rebecca in saying that maybe a quota wouldn't be so bad after all though I think it could be an unfair bias that shouldn't distinctively be made to favor one writer over another.
I agree that the problem is not a lack of female writers, it's a lack of recognition. There's not a lot to do to combat this problem except to keep pushing.
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