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Woo, Seungjeung. “Feminist Theatrical Apparatus in Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi” Studies in English Language & Literature. 38.4 (2012): 105-125. This thesis aims to present the theatrical apparatus in Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi by Pam Gems, which are used to show the problems of socialist feminists and difficulties of women playwrights. Theatrical apparatus generally reveal the values and purposes of what they show and even veil the fixed ideology in a society. This work covers not only the problems of women's and women playwrights' but the problems of theatre system. The key character Fish, who is a socialist activist of upper-middle classes, shows elite women' discrepancy and the problems of Bourgeois feminism. Gems uses the method of anti-Aristotle theatre, which stops audience from absorption in the drama. This dramatic strategy contributes for audience to see her conflicts and expects the result. This drama also uses other Brechtian methods in order to reveal the obstacles of male-centered theatrical system toward women playwrights. Gems insists that women need feminist theatres because art is necessary for women and the creative energy and subversive power which women playwrights have is the possibilities of the equal society for women. (Chonbuk National University)