Elizabeth’s Reviews > All Change Please: A Practical Guide to Achieving Gender Equality in Theatre > Status Update

I speak with the experience of someone who’s directed a lot of classics when I say it’s hard if the work you’re engaging in depicts people like you as bitpart players, stupid or weak. Those messages have a tendency of sometimes coming out in behaviour of others towards you, inside and outside the rehearsal room.
-Lucy Kerbel

The researchers found that as television viewing increased so self-esteem proportionally decreased in all but one group of children in the sample: the white boys. Theirs increased with the more television they watched.
Lucy Kerbel

"None of us are tenants of someone else’s industry; we are theatre and if we don’t change it to be what we dream it could be, no one else will. We’re not going to get given permission to change it because there is no one who’s in a position to grant that permission. If we want to create change, the only people we have to ask permission of are ourselves."
-Lucy Kerbel