Gailey Road is interested in social issues that impact on the lives of women. We work to ensure our work attracts women from a wide variety of communities in Toronto. Our first Fringe production Pound Predators was a satirical parody about the “war against weight” and featured a multicultural cast. Our second Fringe production Lost Daughter was a historical drama about antisemitism and xenophobia in 1933 Toronto. Lost Daughter won the 2005 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Award. Our current project Harriet’s House is a play about transnationally adopted children growing up in a same-sex family. It will be performed during the Toronto Pride Festival in June 2010.
I am taking the latest draft of Harriet's House to the 2009 International Women Playwrights Conference in Mumbai, India. Some 300 Indian delegates will meet 100 of their international colleagues at this meeting of women playwrights. There are 11 Canadian delegates going to the conference to present play readings of their latest work and I am doing a play reading of Harriet's House on November 5, 2009.
About 150 theatre artists will also attend the the conference to stage more than a dozen scripts written by women. The conference will take place from November 1-7, 2009. For more information on the International Women Playwrights Conference and the organization behind it, Women Playwrights International, go to: http://www.wpinternational.net
In my next blog I will write about the Canadian group of playwrights who are going to the International Women Playwrights Conference and when I get back from the conference I will post a set of entries about the conference itself.
All the best,
Tara
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