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Putting women's stories centre stage

Two leading playwrights who focus on the female experience.

Bringing women's stories to the West End and Broadway stage - Kim Chakanetsa unites two playwrights who are on a mission to amplify female voices.

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm wrote the sell-out play Emilia, an all-female production which re-imagines Shakespeare's mysterious 'Dark Lady' and offers a feminist rallying cry. After appearing at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and in the West End, it has now been optioned for a film. Morgan is frustrated however at the relative lack of opportunities for female playwrights. 'There are so many women who aren鈥檛 getting to tell their stories and I鈥檓 doing my best to crack open the door.'

Katori Hall is the US award-winning writer behind Tina - the critically acclaimed Tina Turner musical, as well as The Mountaintop and Our Lady of Kibeho. Katori began writing because she couldn't find a play that had a scene for two young black women, so decided 'I have to write those plays, then. I have to carry that baton forward and write us into existence, because if I don鈥檛 who else will?' She went on to become the first black woman to win the Olivier Award for Best New Play.

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L: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (credit: David M. Benett/Getty Images)
R: Katori Hall (credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images)

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