The Roundtable (along with a previous
Women Directors' Forum) led to a review of the dilemma headed up by researcher
Elaine Lally.
When the Review was released it made
front page news in the Sydney Morning Herald, plus a good article in The Age.
There's been nothing further in the newspapers since - though we understand
that it is possible there may be - but the Review itself makes interesting
reading, and sets a pattern for action to take into the future. We hope it will
mean that a real commitment to supporting the work of women playwrights equally
with their male peers may - at last - happen.
You can find the Review on the OzCo
website here.
It includes a link to a survey that will
remain live for about 3 weeks, in order to capture the sector’s responses to
the report. This will help inform next steps. It can be found here.
The following links should take you to
the newspaper articles mentioned above.
There is also a follow-up article on
page 9:
It’s also on Page 5 of The Age:
Further news is that all of the theatre
MPAB companies and Theatre Key Organisations are now using the Creating
Pathways reporting guide (loosely based on the EOWA reporting
mechanism) to identify opportunities being provided or promoted to women
directors and playwrights. It’s retrospective reporting, so the first data will
be collected in February 2013. The OzCo has also set up an Action Learning initiative, that may benefit some women creative leaders.
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