Bearing Down on the Bechdel Test: Laurie Fyffe at the Ergo Arts Pink Festival!
An opinion piece by Laurie Fyffe
In 2017, I came across the Ergo Arts Pink Festival with a mandate as follows:
“Ergo Pink Fest is a 3-day theatre festival of staged readings in Toronto conceived and hosted by Ergo Arts Theatre. The idea for the festival was formed when Ergo Arts Theatre’s Artistic Director, Anna Pappas, read in the 2015 Equity in Theatre study by the Playwrights Guild of Canada that: The greatest disparity in gender equity happens in the playwright category. While some progress has been made over the past two years in changing the dominant voice in theatre, Ergo Arts is committed to continuing the push forward toward equitable and inclusive art.” …