Half the Sky Feminist Theatre


Half the Sky Feminist Theatre is a community-based women's theatre group in Hamilton, Ontario. The theatre company is one of a number of women-supportive and women's theatre companies in Canada that work to remedy and redress the scarcity of women as playwrights and leading actors in the Canadian theatre industry.
Founded in 1982 in the wake of a performance by Zora McLachlan and Kathy Brown at a conference hosted by the Hamilton Women's Centre, the group has written or performed a number of plays by, for, and about women. By 1986 The Hamilton Spectator had recognized the theatre troupe as "one of several independent groups bubbling just below the surface of Hamilton's established theatre companies... trying to get off the ground to bring Hamilton's cultural community a dramatic alternative." Some of Half the Sky's performances include: its first production, Hot Flashes ; Take a Midol Martha ; Moon Tree ; Last Summer at Bluefish Cove ; Albertine in Five Times ; Going Up ; Collateral Damage ; Eleemosynary ; Hannah Free ; Good Help is so Hard to Murder ; and Random Acts.