A Gender conversation….and Pirates: Creating a safe enviroment for youth in your theatre program

Episode 146: A Gender conversation….and Pirates Steven is a long time Theatrefolk playwright, and in his latest play The Dread (Playwright) Pirate Sadie, the majority of characters are girl pirates. And in the world of the play, this is the norm. In this podcast we talk gender and how we can create a safe environment for students to own who they are, embrace who they are and stand up for who they are. Being human is challenging and uncomfortable at times. How do you create a communicative accepting community? Show Notes The Dread (Playwright) Pirate Sadie The Bottom of the Lake Ashland Falls She Wrote, Died, Then Wrote Some More   Episode Transcript Welcome to TFP – The Theatrefolk Podcast – the place to be for Drama teachers, Drama students, and theatre educators everywhere. I’m Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Hello! I hope you're well. Thanks for listening! Ho ho ho! This is Episode 146! You can find any links for this episode in the show notes at theatrefolk.com/episode146. You know, sometimes, I throw those things in and I think I’m probably the only one laughing. I am the one laughing. I amuse myself. What can I say? All right. Today, we’re talking gender and pirates, of course. This is a lovely conversation with a lovely human being, Steven Stack. Steven has a number of plays with us which I will put in the show notes and I’m going to mention them in the interview and I’m going to talk about them in THEATREFOLK NEWS so I’ve got you covered. You are covered talking about Steven. Steven works at a studio where they do a summer camp and the participants are mostly girls so that’s who he writes for. What I think is just marvelous is that he doesn’t really worry about “these are the girl parts and then these are the guy parts.” It’s “these are the good parts.” We start with pirates in this conversation and journey into things a lot deeper. So, won’t you join me? Let’s get into it. LINDSAY: All right. I am thrilled and pleased as punch to be talking to Steven Stack. Hello, Steven! STEVEN: Hi Lindsay! LINDSAY: How are you today? STEVEN: I am fantastic. How about you? LINDSAY: I am also… I’m… I’m very… Fantastic! Let’s go there! Yes, I’m fantastic! I was pulling back from it and then I’m like, “No, no…” STEVEN: I’m glad you committed to it. LINDSAY: I committed. STEVEN: I had some doubts for a while. I was like, “Wait! She’s going in a different direction.” LINDSAY: Yeah, she was waffling and then, no, she went. She went for it! STEVEN: Well done! You made a bold choice! Good stuff! LINDSAY: I think we can end things now, can’t we? That was it. We’re both fantastic. That’s the end of the podcast. All right. Steven, of course, is one of our lovely Theatrefolk playwrights. We have a number of plays – The Bottom of the Lake and She Wrote, Died, and Wrote Some More and we have a relatively new play which is lovely – the lovely playwright writing the lovely play – which is the Dread Pirate/Playwright Sadie. The thing that is the most remarkable thing about this play, and the thing that was the thing that really enticed us a...