Welcome to our International Women’s Day E-dition, which includes Lauren Carroll Harris’ report on promising new directions offered filmmakers and audiences by female-focused film festivals. Above, the team at Women in Film & TV NSW pose in the outfits they wore for their funny and forceful “End the Sausage Party” protest against the low number of nominations for films made by women in the 2016 AACTA Awards. Elsewhere in this E-dition, a cohort of female RealTime writers respond to a variety of out-of-the-ordinary works in the Perth International Arts Festival (Jana Perkovic), Supercell Contemporary Dance Festival (Kathryn Kelly) and Asia TOPA (Sally Sussman and Madeline Roycroft). Demands are rapidly escalating for gender equity and freedom from discrimination and violence in the face of surging dictatorial politics overtly hostile to women's rights. RealTime celebrates women's creative capacity to prevail. We’re off to the Adelaide Festival! See you again on 22 March.
Virginia & Keith
ASIA TOPA: ESCAPE ATTEMPTS Lachlan Philpott's Little Emperors conveys with theatrical verve the oppressive weight of obligation borne by the progeny of China's one-child policy, writes Sally Sussman.
PIAF 2017: NATURALISM THAT MAKES SPACE FOR ALL
Jana Perkovic applauds American playwright Richard Nelson’s trilogy, The Gabriels, set across the 2016 election year and vividly portraying “a group of three-dimensional individuals, their lives spent navigating the consequences of grand narratives, without ever over-identifying with them.”
ASIA TOPA: MODEL DIRTY DANCING
On seeing The Red Detachment of Women, Sally Sussman swings “between excitement at seeing such a vibrant rendition of a ‘Model’ work and reluctance to validate such striking art performed, as it had once been, totally in the service of dirty politics.”
PIAF: THREE KINDS OF GRIEVING
Opus No.7 (Russia), Betroffenheit (Canada) and Exit/Exist (South Africa) reveal radically contrasting means for expressing loss, its enduring impacts and attempts at accommodation, writes Jonathan W Marshall.
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