ABSTRACT
It’s All Right to Be Woman Theater (founded 1969, New York City) defined their theater as a vehicle for the exploration of the experience of women together. “Whereas theater has been to date, a combining of specialists, the essence of our theater is to convey the collective experience.”1 The group stressed that the inspiration for creation is women’s everyday lives, their dreams, feelings, and thoughts. “Making theater out of these private parts of ourselves is one way we are trying everyday to take our own experiences seriously.”2 When Karen Malpede asked them if, by basing their theater on their own life experience, they were assuming the audience’s “personal but as yet unconfronted” experiences to be the same as their own, they replied: “What we’re doing is confronting our own experience…. Because women have never really taken themselves seriously.”3
