THEATRE 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mark Rylance, Puritans, Aphra Behn
13 Sep 2016
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Male nurses make more on average per year than female colleagues . Town-hall meeting (2008) about the 2008-09 off-broadway season. Off-broadway producing plays by male playwrights at four times the rate as plays by women playwrights. The statistics on broadway theatres were worse. The new broadway season (2015-16) includes no plays by women or playwrights of color. 68% of the broadway audience is female. Grassroots initiative for gender parity in the theatre profession by the year. Women are natural actresses rather than masters of a craft. Mark rylance as olivia in shakespeare"s twelfth night. In 1642, puritans closed theatres for 18 years! Theatre was: a lie (pretense), immoral, economic threat. Put an end to cross dressing on stage by royal decree. An actress played desdemona in shakespeare"s othello, december 8, 1660. Margaret hughes: possibly the first english actress. First english woman to make a living as a playwright.
