Theatre Unbound delivers thought-provoking live theatre conceived and created by women, providing audiences with engaging, rarely-seen perspectives on issues that are relevant and universal.
DID YOU KNOW?
The first known playwright in Christian Europe was Hrotsvitha, a tenth-century German nun.
In Yuan Dynasty China (1271-1368), women frequently appeared onstage — in fact, it’s likely that most Yuan Dynasty actors were women.
In Mantua, Italy, in the 1560s, two women achieved celebrity as actresses and managers of troupes performing commedia dell’arte.
Kabuki was invented by a woman.
The first woman to appear in a Shakespeare play did so in 1660 — 44 years after Shakespeare’s death.
Playwright Aphra Behn was one of the first women to earn her living as a writer.
Female playwrights had better odds of being produced in eighteenth century London than they do in today’s United States, according to scholar Melinda C. Finberg.
Twentieth-century impresario Minnie Fiske was one of the first producers to bring Henrik Ibsen’s plays to the United States.
Girls and women slightly outnumber boys and men in the population of the United States, but male characters significantly outnumber female characters in plays, television shows and movies.
In a typical year, less than 20% of the plays produced in the United States are written by a woman.
