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Women and Gender in Theatre

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Women and Gender in Theatre

Theatre 2100: Spring 2015; Wk 8, Lecture1
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From Ancient Greece to the Renaissance, most female roles in theatre were played by men or adolescent boys.

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While women in England would not take the stage until 1660, women had been publicly acting, writing, and managing theatre companies elsewhere in Europe for nearly 100 years previous…and even some time before that.

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Hrosvitha was a 10th Century German Canoness, who arguably was the first European playwright since the fall of the Roman Empire.

http://www.women-philosophers.com/Hroswitha-of-Gandersheim.html
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During the Spanish Golden Age (1600-1680), a vibrant theatrical culture flourished throughout the Spanish Empire. Sor Juana de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a scholar, writer, and nun who wrote numerous plays and religious processionals in colonial Mexico.
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A view from the "cazuela," or women's section of a Spanish Golden Age public theatre.
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The creator of the Japanese theatre form Kabuki was a woman, Izumo no Okuni, who developed the performance style in 1603.

Women were eventually banned from performing in Japan, and men would go on to specialize in women's roles, called onnagata:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JjLuh4Ns7s
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Julie Taymor was the first woman director to win a Tony award for direction of a musical (The Lion King, 1997). She is an accomplished director and costume designer who has worked with puppets and masks to create compelling visions on stage.

Below is a link to an interview in which she describes how her work informed her vision for the musical version of The Lion King.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYVKdu6H2Vk
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Gender Gap in Theatre Today

  • Men's roles outnumber womens' by 2:1
  • 23% of directors, designers, composers are women
  • Less than 20% of plays produced are by women
http://americantheatre.org/2014/09/top-10-plays-2014-2015/
Photo by K. Sawyer Photography
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An all-female cast of Shakespeare's Henry IV recently opened at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London, England.

In this image, actor Claire Dunne plays young Prince Hal, who would become Henry V.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29566432
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Actors' Theatre of Columbus recently staged a production of Hamlet, with a woman cast in the title role.

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