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... She Also Wrote Plays - A Comprehensive Guide to Women Playwrights and their Work
Looking for plays by women to produce, perform or read? Teaching drama, literature or gender studies and needing new material ? This Guide provides 400 entries from Hrotswitha to Wertenbaker, giving biographical…
A Busy Day
7 Male, 7 Female
A Busy Day is a love story It is also a witty and wonderfully-observed satire on class and greed by the most popular woman writer of her time The scene is London in the summer of 1800, and in the course…
Australian Women’s Drama
A survey of Australian women's writing for theatre from 1971 to 1996, this anthology charts feminist thinking over the past twenty-five years. 2 Acts - 3M, 2W (plus chorus) & 2 Acts - 2M, 2W & 4 Acts -…
Converging Realities - Feminism in Australian Theatre
This looks at the work of women theatre practitioners who express feminist ideas through their use of form Peta Tait identifies how women’s work in comic and physical styles, performed in unusual…
Dorothy Hewett - The Feminine As Subversion
Here Margaret Williams gives a critical perspective on a highly individual and varied body of playwriting by one of Australia’s great writers.
Frangipani Perfume & Mapaki
4 Male, 3 Female
Frangipani Perfume ... “Imagine Chekhov’s Three Sisters bathed in the Pacific and coconut-milked for all its sensual worth ... a hothouse of sensual theatrical arousal” ~ Capital Times…
I Am a Woman - The Play - The Journey of One Woman and Many Women
I Am A Woman is a journey, not through time so much as through realms of consciousness expressed in the haunting voices of some of literature's most powerful women Together, on the page or in performance,…
Life Without Instruction
5 Male, 3 Female
Based on a true story and a real trial, this presents a woman’s struggle for freedom, identity and dignity Artemisia Fentileshi’s father, the late-Renaissance painter Orazio Gentileschi, takes…
Mythic Women & Real Women
This wide-ranging international collection of plays and performance pieces by women includes work by Caryl Churchill, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Sarah Daniels, Jackie Kay, Jamaica Kincaid and Elaine Feinstein…
Only Prostitutes Marry in May
Mary Stuart & Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client & Dreams of Clytemnestra & Crime at the Tennis Club These four plays present Maraini's unabashed and forthright views on the relation between…
Ophelia Thinks Harder
5 Male, 5 Female
This is a “thoroughly revised” version of Hamlet ... “Set in a sprawl of bedding and rumpled clothes, gorgeously costumed in vibrant grunge, the Play is a passionate exploration of female…
Playing With Ideas - Australian Women Playwrights From The Suffragettes To The Sixties
The extraordinary contribution of Australian women to the development of early feminist theatre has never been fully recognised. In Playing With Ideas, Susan Pfisterer and Carolyn Pickett reveal a dynamic…
Plays by Women - 1 - Vinegar Tom & Vi & Tissue & & Aurora Leigh
*** 50% DISCOUNT *** The Plays are ... Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill Dusa Fish Stas and Vi by Pam Gems Tissue by Louise Page Aurora Leigh by Michelene Wandor Each play has an afterword by its author,…
Plays by Women - 10 - The Women Destroyed & More
*** 20% DISCOUNT *** A selection of plays by theatre director Annie Castledine The Woman Destroyed is a monologue by Simone de Beauvoir about a woman battling against the odds to find an authentic and…
Plays by Women - 4
Objections to Sex and Violence by Caryl Churchill & Rose's Story by Grace Dayley & Blood and Ice by Liz Lochhead & Pinball by Alison Lyssa by Michelene Wandor
Plays by Women 9
Purgatory in Ingolstadt & Pioneers in Ingolstadt & Avant-garde & Close Encounter & I Wasn't Aware of the Explosive by Marieluise Fleisser & Tokens of Affection by Maureen Lawrence & Variations on a Theme…
Rage and Reason - Women Playwrights on Playwriting
Twenty contemporary female dramatists discuss their work, their personal views about the state of theatre today, the struggle of playwrights to get their work produced, and the difficulties of writing…
Revenge of the Amazons
5 Male, 1 Female
This is a “thoroughly revised” version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream written to “provide more comic parts for women and a better share of the famous lines The set is a mass of screwed…
Saga of the Wet Hens
0 Male, 4 Female
Four Quebec women writers meet at the centre of a fabulous vortex where they perform six Tableaux - Sisters in Slumber & Henpecking the Hens & The Pelt of Urs Major & The Night the Women Looked…
Shudder & Fold
7 Male, 3 Female
Shudder ... ” ... an exceptional play, a story of people living on the edge ... Under Milk Wood on acid” ~ Capital Times Fold ... Based around a series of five birthday parties, Fold follows…
The Fighting Days
1 Male, 3 Female
Set in Winnipeg during 1910-1917 this play presents the polarities of public and private lives, and issues of racism and pacifism in the suffragette movement It focusses on the life and work of Francis…
The Misandrist
3 Male, 5 Female
A fairy tale wrapped around three Mysteries. four Comedies, a Lecture, two Appalling Tragedies, two Therapies, two school essays on Shakespeare - and a Love Story ” ... angry and funny energy ...…
