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Balancing act

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 07/19/2012 10:58 AM | Comments: 0

HERE’S a list of famous playwrights whose works have been mounted at the Winnipeg fringe (many of them multiple times) over a quarter-century: William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Peter Shaffer, Harold Pinter, Daniel MacIvor, Edward Albee, Bertolt Brecht, Michel Tremblay, Christopher Durang, Tom Stoppard, Eric Bogosian, Samuel Beckett, George F. Walker, David Hare, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, Oscar Wilde, Luigi Pirandello, Alan Aykbourn, Norm Foster, John Guare, John Patrick Shanley, Morris Panych, Lanford Wilson and Christopher Fry.

Notice they’re all men?

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