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Boston 2006
Theatre Season
Bare of Women
ON WOMEN'S ISSUES - by G.L. Horton
PG wrote: "Oh, please be quiet. This thing you think
you see, that you're being passed over, again, because you're
a woman or a person of color, that's not what you see. That's
not the way it is."
M—I'm moved/upset by your statement that you've "given
up". It's going to take me a while to mull over the implications
of your writing books but not sending out your plays-- but I
was struck to the heart by your words.
PG, thanks for the encouragement to kvetch. I've been fuming
for the last month b/c our Boston companies have announced their
2006 seasons and they are almost all bare of women writers/directors.
Even female acting roles are in short supply! A great falling-off
from the toe-hold we females thought we'd gained in the last
20 years through a combination of talent, hard work, and political
pressure. And in response to this? Not a word of complaint anywhere.
No one seems to have noticed! Have the women who make up the
majority of audience, backstage workers, students and gophers
decided that we are not worthy? That we should be content to
be silent and let men choose our stories, speak for us, cast
and direct us, critique us? Have we forgotten so soon? Silence=
death! (9/26/05)
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