The International Women Playwrights Conference which takes place once every three years is being hosted this year by Stree Mukti Sanghatana, a women's issues organization in collaboration with the University of Mumbai, who is providing its three theatre spaces for a variety of playreadings, workshops and performances.
The conference, which begins November 1, 2009 and runs until November 7, 2009, has a delegation of 11 Canadian women playwrights attending: Beverley Cooper, Trina Davies, Christine Estima, Tara Goldstein, Jordan Hall, Robyn Israel, Marcia Johnson (The Playwrights Guild of Canada's Chair of the Women's Caucus), Melissa Major, Gail Nyoka, Carol Sinclair, and Sally Stubb. All of the Canadian playwrights will be reading from one of their recent or new plays. Beverley Cooper will be reading from her play Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Truscott, which was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award.
I'll be reading from my newest play Harriet's House, a play about international adoption in a same-sex family. The play was workshopped this past July with five Toronto women theatre artists and Gailey Road is planning to produce the play this summer at the Toronto Pride Festival.
I am very excited about attending the conference which will include a number of performances by Indian women theatre artists. My next posting will appear after my return from Mumbai and will report on some of my experiences there. I anticipate being able to share a wealth of information about women-centred, research-informed theatre that is going on in India and other parts of the world.
All the best,
Tara
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