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Feminist Drama 1970's 1980's What is feminism? Feminism simply means paying attention to women. Men as well as women can be feminist. So how does this apply to drama? Most plays post1970 were about heroes villains etc. women such as Caryl Churchill and Pam Gems started to change this by writing plays about women and about the social aspects of being a women. This means that women were trying to change theatre to involve the social and everyday aspects of being a woman. Also controversial assets and serious assets of being a women were involved in these plays such as women being equal to men etc. Male playwrights have mostly dominated the last century and the star role-played by males. However towards the end of the 60's women started to slowly do their own playwrights and perform their own plays. The modern feminist theatre movement began late 60's. Their goal was to bring women and...

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