Candy Bowers in Australian Booty, one of seven staged productions at Festival Fatale.
Festival Fatale, presented by Women in Theatre and Screen (WITS) in Darlinghurst this weekend, is not just a celebration of theatre written and directed by women – it’s also an explicitly feminist event.
‘I teach script writing and so I work with a lot of younger women, and I do get alarmed when I hear their discomfort at being called feminists, because they feel that they’re in a world that’s a lot fairer. And this is great but it was because of the feminists, right back to the ones who tied themselves to railings to get the vote! We have to honour these women – and men – who fought for women’s rights, so feminism should never be a dirty word,’ said playwright Tee O’Neil.
