MT/Acting Gender Gaps

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The fact that just 16% of Shakespeare’s characters are women – and that most of the memorable lines are spoken by men – will not stop Emma Rice’s mission to get a gender-balanced stage at Shakespeare’s Globe.

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Rice joins the Globe from Kneehigh, regarded as one of the UK’s most exciting and innovative theatre companies. Getting a 50/50 gender balance on stage was a priority, she said. “As somebody who has got custody of this canon for a while, I think it is quite interesting to say, yes, it is a target. How can we get the female voices through? How can we change the mould?

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jan/05/shakespeares-globe-emma-rice-if-anybody-bended-gender