THTRFLM 3DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Scenic Design, W. M. Keck Observatory, Fox Premium
2 May 2015
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In the canadian theatre industry key positions of creativity and authority are primarily male dominated. With 1,945 productions staged by 113 surveyed companies between 2000/01 and. 2004/05: 68% of the plays were written by men, 27% by women, and, 4% were developed as collective creations. People of colour comprised 9% of the produced playwrights, with 5% of the plays written by men and 4% written by women. Overall, canadian playwrights accounted for 60% of the total productions. While companies with female ads produce female playwrights 38% of the time on average, companies with male ads do so only 24% of the time. Conversely, companies with male ads produce work by men 76% of the time on average, while companies with female ads stage work by men 62% of the time. Women directed 34% of the staged productions overall, men directed the other. 66%, and people of colour directed not quite 6% of the plays (less than 3% for each gender).
