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"You do not give women a chance", "Do not lynch me": the stormy confrontation between Tzipi Pines and the creators
A heated confrontation at the theater creators' conference between the director of Beit Lessin and the creators who claimed to have aborted women. Pines was offended that she was not invited to the panel, and said from the audience: "Do not lynch me."
Chauvinistic scum.
The Cameri did not address the issue "
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Tzipi Pines
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Sagi Ben Nun
Monday, 18 October 2021, 15:08 Updated: 15:26
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"50:50" conference of the Theater Creators Forum, which dealt with discrimination against women in the theater, Tzavta Tel Aviv (Photo: Matan Deri Badash)
Director and playwright Aya Kaplan (Photo: Courtesy of the filmed, Amit Zamir)
A stormy confrontation took place last night (Sunday) at the Tzavta Theater between Beit Lessin Theater Director Tzipi Pines and leading theater creators, during the first professional conference of the Theater Creators Forum, called "50:50". Participation of women in directing and writing in the repertory theaters In the main panel, called "How do we fix it?" Aya Kaplan and Tal Brenner, and actress Sarah von Schwartz.
The one who hoped to be invited to the panel but did not receive an invitation was Pines, who had to settle for sitting in the audience only. From the Theatre's Creators' Forum, Walla! Culture that Pines was not invited to the panel "because in all her forty years as artistic director, she has not done enough for directors and for women writers in the theater, and we are sorry for that." The conference presented, among other things, a study according to which between the years 2000 and 2018, the percentage of performances directed by women in Beit Lessin averaged only 13 percent. In addition, another sad fact was noted: 10 of the plays currently being staged at the Pines Theater were staged by men, compared to only one staged by a woman - Pines herself.
During the panel, Dr. Fogel-Geva said that former Minister of Culture Miri Regev "did good things too", including introducing a financial incentive whereby cultural institutions staffed by women in their managements will receive higher financial support. To increase the number of directors The main panel moderator, Chen Lieberman, commented that there are few female directors in Beit Lessin, even though its artistic director and CEO is a woman - Tzipi Pines.
Following Lieberman's criticism, Pines sought the right to speak.
"It's a little strange to me that out of five women executives, you chose only two managers. You did not invite me, I happen to be here, on my own initiative," she said.
Pines claimed that of all the workers in the theater, "70 percent are women and 30 percent are women."
Asked by the audience to explain why there are so few directors in her theater, Pines squirmed, arguing that "there are not enough women directors," adding: "I think in the end it all depends on the directors' attitude, what they want to do, if they make an appointment with me."
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A claim that is being lynched.
Tzipi Pines (Photo: Dan Ben Ari)
Director Tal Brenner (Photo: Creative Commons)
After claiming that fewer women offer themselves as directors, protests were heard from the audience, including from a creator who claimed that she invited Pines to see plays she directed but she did not attend. Pines said: "I'm sorry I did not come," but after further protest calls towards her, she asked: "Do not turn this into a lynching against me." Actress, director and creative forum member Adili Lieberman called out to her: "We do not see any change in the forty years you have power, in which you direct and run a theater. You did not give women enough chance, so we did not invite you to the panel. I know it hurts." .
In another part of her remarks, Pines said: "It is a difficult nightmare to run a theater that is all men. To face it, for years and years, and the glass ceiling has not been broken. True, I have a lot of power, I run for many years. Culture".
Before the main panel, dismal data were presented to the audience by Ronit Lerer-Shefek, who is conducting a doctoral dissertation on directors in the Israeli theater at the Faculty of Arts of Tel Aviv University.
According to the study, which examined all types of productions created from 2000 to 2018, the participation of women in directing in the entire Israeli theater was only 23 percent.
From examining the large and medium-sized repertory theaters alone in these 18 years, the representation of women in directing drops even further - to 18 percent.
The data are also serious in light of the fact that productions directed by women alone are included here with productions directed by women and men together.
If only women-directed productions were tested - the percentages would crash even further down.
She also told Lerer-Shefek that the worrying picture is that the gap between directors remains constant and unchanged throughout almost the first twenty years of the 21st century.
Time has not reduced discrimination.
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Director Tal Brenner, one of the leaders of the Theater Creators Forum, said in the panel: "My father is a doctor, professor, former head of department. I know that the number of doctors in Israel is more than 50 percent. Being a doctor in Israel - brain surgeon, psychiatrist or hematologist - it is not "It's less complicated than being a director. But there are about 50 percent of doctors in Israel. My father told me that there is no such thing as me publishing research and getting some money without equality. He must have female writers in research. But being a director woman is very difficult."
Another speaker was director, playwright and theater creator Aya Kaplan. "I will speak from the bottom of my heart. The experience of being a woman is very complex and very difficult. In my first directing at the Cameri there were two actors, I will not name them, who simply abused me. They were a piece of chauvinistic scum. Omri Nitzan (the Cameri's artistic director who passed away two years ago - Sb) did not know how to eat me and how to eat this problem. Because until now he has been directed by aging men, and suddenly such a fisherman comes. "
Kaplan spoke painfully about the scourge of harassment and sexual assault in the industry:" Since I was in the forum, a lot of stories have come to us. I sleep very badly at night. I quarreled with people I did not want to quarrel with because my point of view changed. And I also saw that I was not alone in this experience of mine. You need, on the one hand, to have the mental resilience and, on the other hand, not to be interested in all kinds of harassment all the time. "
The conference also raised the issue that this discrimination occurs despite the fact that women constitute a majority among students and teaching staff in institutions involved in directing teaching in Israel, and despite significant representation of women in fringe centers.
The panel noted that the consequences are acute - the audience's exposure to the work of directors is low, most theater budgets are allocated to the work of male directors, there are significant pay gaps between the sexes, and directors gain at least prestige and recognition.
If one insists on seeking hope, then Irit Vogel-Geva of the Ministry of Culture announced in a panel that the ministry will examine how it can help rectify the situation, and consider whether to incorporate a financial incentive into the ministry's criteria for support, which will encourage women to join the theater.
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