S2 Ep5: International Women's Day

Published: March 8, 2019, 11 a.m.

In this episode of Such Stuff, we celebrate International Women\u2019s Day. Taking a look at our own work, and a wider look across the industry, we talk to brilliant women from across the theatre industry and ask: how far has theatre come in the drive for equality and inclusion, and how much further do we have to go? And what is it, right now \u2013 on and off our stages \u2013 that give us hope that by International Women\u2019s Day next year, we will have pushed the conversation even further\u2026

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We hear from playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury, who just won the Susan Smith Blackburn prize, the oldest playwriting prize in the world with an all-female shortlist; Clare Perkins, who is returning to the role of Emilia in the West End, talks inspiring women and changing the world one play at a time; fight director Yarit Dor talks us through a career in a discipline that was until recently seen as typically masculine territory; Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, our Head of Higher Education and Research, takes us through the upcoming festival Women and Power, and why we need it now. And our very own artistic director Michelle Terry, talks about the huge structural changes we need across the industry, and how we\u2019re getting the ball rolling here at Shakespeare\u2019s Globe.