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It's the roles that actresses are asked to play and how a casting decision is finally which show most clearly how this society views To play a romantic role you must have good looks and a good figure; you mustn't be too small, too fat, too thin tall, otherwise you might dominate your male counterpart. I was once told by a director that I'd never be able to play romantic roles as I was too tall and therefore 'feminine' To be funny and acceptable as a woman you must not have any of the attributes of the 'romantic" female; you have to be a 'character lady', in the manner of Hatti Jacques or Beryl To play a housewife and mother you need to look homely, and not exotic or off beat in any way; whereas to be cast as the 'other woman must not look homely. sexually free women present a threat to a society which demands that the 'good' woman be primarily wife and mother, ensconced in the bosom of the nuclear family.
While men, too, are stereotyped in this society, the structure is nothing like as rigid as it is for women, and this is reflected in the media. Male 'hero'. figures are extremely terms of looks and physique, but whatever their looks they are nearly having an amazing ability to dominate women.
At the National Theatre, where 1 worked for two years up to last January, a group which for the first time 12 months ago marked the beginnings of theatre women organising in their The National at that time was presenting the public with some very interesting and dynamic There was Granville Madras House, a tascinating study economic and sexual repression of women in 1910. Edward Bond's The Woman the male myth and how far it is responsible for war-mongering capitalist societies.
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This was the play for which the workshops were being held, but which its author secretly planned to be performed by an all-male cast!
At this last workshop I was elected as chairperson and I had to eject Bill Gaskill and Barry Keefe when the women overwhelmingly decided that we couldn't possibly have men as witnesses to any decisions we might need to take. Eventually we decided to allow Barry Keefe back in — as a hostage.
al. we had every intention performing his play, and if we had him and his Although the workshops were technically we rapidly discovered the most amazing togetherness and ability to organise quickly and efficiently. Politically, we couldn't have been more disparate, but we were all women, and women who were being oppressed and fighting back with an efficiency that would have left revolutionary groups open mouthed.
Ai one point, a dozen of the 'heavies" walked in saying that Bill Gaskill hac to come to our workshop as observers. Politely but firmly we asked them to go. Beligerently, they refused. The result? We simply vacated the room and continued our Barry Keefe's reaction: 'But surely you've given in to the men. You didn't even attempt to defend yourselves.
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