New artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe theatre aims to get much greater proportion of women on the stageThe fact that just 16% of Shakespeare's characters are women " and that most of the memorable lines are spoken by men " will not stop Emma Rice's mission to get a gender-balanced stage at Shakespeare's Globe."There is no reason why Gloucester can't be a woman," said Rice, who succeeds Dominic Dromgoole as the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AM on January 5, 2016