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[1] that work to remedy and redress the scarcity of women as playwrights and leading actors in the Canadian theatre industry.
[2] Founded in 1982 after a women.s center conference Sheila Simpson from Ireland had read about feminist theatre in Montreal Pol Pelliter and she suggested doing a play.
[3] in the wake of a performance by 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... [and] trying to get off the ground to bring Hamilton's cultural community a dramatic alternative.