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For my part, getting a play on its feet is the hardest thing to do, but year after year I keep on doing it. It’s the unconquerable belief that through theatre I can show people a new, and often-strange, reality... or, I can fill a space in time where many of our human contradictions get to play out. For me this is what being a playwright is about – unleashing the political/social imagination and running with it -
I agree that we need to be stronger in our language, and I back Carmel Winters statement fully- labels need to be applied. We need to tear things down and rebuild. I welcome Julie Kelleher’s statement to include a season of professional female writers at The Everyman, and I hope it brings new and established voices together in a way that is stimulating for the future of theatre both regionally and nationally in Ireland. It’s about greater opportunities for women in theatre, and it’s about the role of the arts in society, its values... function – purpose!
The debate is linked to a bigger debate that needs to happen in Ireland now. I’ve said already on twitter that #GenderEquality #amendthe8th and #thechildcarecrisis should be hot topics in the debate running up to the next elections, and I see #WakingTheFeminists as a part of that. It's a big job to do, because these issues are not resolved and are constantly left unvoiced in the dark. Therefore, I'm supportive of all efforts to illuminate this shame of our society, and be rid of it-
The next few weeks will show a lot. I’m committed to Dublin on Nov 12th. I’m committed to writing my play BURN fuelled with courage I draw from this movement, and I’m excited about this time of acute transformation and change. It is a time of celebration, activism and hard work. Now, I must get stuck in-
Jenny Rogers is a writer and a researcher. She has had 5 plays produced with Roundhouse Productions, and is currently doing a PhD in Playwriting at University College Cork
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