New artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre aims to score much greater proportion of women on the stageThe 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 score a gender-balanced stage at Shakespeare’s Globe.
There is no reason why Gloucester can’t be a woman,” said Rice, who succeeds Dominic Dromgoole as the venues artistic director in April. “whether anybody bended gender it was Shakespeare, or so I mediate it just takes a change of mindset.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com