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is this feminist?
Check out this hilarious tumblr.
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A Look Inside the Mind of a Suffragist
Cross-posted at Ms. Picture it: 1917. Susan B. Anthony has been dead for 11 years, Elizabeth Cady Stanton for 15. Carrie Chapman Catt has been agitating with the National American Woman Suffrage Association since 1900. But women in America still do not have the right to vote. Fed up, a group of militant suffragists called the National…
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Style
“Style is knowing what kind of play you’re in.” – Sir John Gielgud
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Company Creation Festival 2012 – The Shows
Company Creation Festival 2012 from Matthew McCray on Vimeo.
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Helen Hunt Runs the Show in Our Town
Cross posted at Ms. The moment she enters, walking quickly, in her masculine work boots and jeans, you know that she is a woman in charge. That’s what a real stage manager is, after all, but in most productions of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-Prize winning classic, Our Town, the Stage Manager is an old white man,…
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As Long as Fear Can Turn to Wrath is Up and Running!
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The Idiot (I Know)
The Idiot (I know) by Holly Derr Scene One Girl A: I’m an idiot. Girl B: You’re not an idiot. Girl A: I’m an idiot. Girl B: You’re not an idiot. Girl A: I’m an idiot. Girl B: You’re not an idiot. (Pause.) Girl A: I’m an idiot. Scene Two Girl A: You’re an idiot.…
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New Fire from Cherrie Moraga
Cross Posted at Ms. It was said that during times of chaos, this female force came down to earth to put things right again. — Roadwoman, New Fire Before there was intersectionality, there was Cherríe Moraga, playwright and co-editor of the feminist classic This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She…
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the first in a series of posts on Theater About Then for Now
When I’m asked to describe my work as a theater director (as anyone in this field is often asked to do), I make sure I use a few keywords: Viewpoints and Composition, gender, Epic Theater, performance of identity. When talking to artists with whom I collaborate, I sometimes say post-modern, and then I explain what…
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As Long As Fear Can Turn to Wrath
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve had time to write because I’ve taken on a new project: As Long as Fear Can Turn to Wrath, an adaptation of selected chapters of a certain great American novel, will be presented as part of Son of Semele Ensemble‘s Company Creation Festival in January and February. In…
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