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It came to be widely recognised, theorised, studied and practised in the wake of the seventies’ Women’s Liberation Movement. Recognition that women’s cultural, social, sexual, economic and political lives had been oppressed by male domination was what fuelled a climate of Western feminism. As a profession, theatre was a microcosm of the discrimination and inequalities operating in society at large.
-Ed Burman (Women's Theatre Group)
-Monstrous Regiment
-Michelen Wandor
-Caryl Churchill
-Rebecca Prichard
-Sarah Kane
-Women Playwrights increasing
- More representation
-Women of Color
-Still relevant
Feminist theatre is a genre that has generally been understood as describing and encompassing diverse theatrical work motivated by the recognition of and resistance to women’s marginalisation within social and cultural systems that accord male privilege and dominance.
http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/genres/feminist-theatre-iid-2485
https://study.com/academy/lesson/feminism-in-theatre-history-examples.html
https://markwhelansliteraryblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/a-brief-history-of-feminist-theatre/
Monstrous Regiment, along with the Women’s Theatre Group (both companies were founded in the mid-seventies), helped push the innovation of a feminist-theatre tradition and to creating an abundance of women’s plays and performances. Many more groups were to follow.
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