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Overview
Lucy Kerbel's 100 Great Plays for Women is an inspiring guide to a hundred plays that put female performers center stage, dispelling the myth that ‘There just aren’t any good plays for women’. With a foreword by Kate Mosse.
Women buy the majority of theatre tickets, make up half the acting profession, and are often the largest cohort of any youth theatre or drama club. And yet they have traditionally been underrepresented on stage. 100 Great Plays for Women seeks to address this gap by celebrating the wealth of drama available for women to perform.
Theatre director Lucy Kerbel’s myth-busting book features compact and insightful introductions to 100 plays, each of which has an entirely or predominantly female cast, with the female characters taking an equal or decisive role in driving the on-stage action. Also included are ten plays for solo female performers.
The result is a personal but wide-ranging reappraisal of the theatrical canon, a snapshot of the very best writing – from ancient times right up to the present day – that has female protagonists at its heart.
A fascinating mixture of familiar and less well-known works dealing with a broad range of themes, it is an essential resource for all directors and producers looking for plays to stage, writers seeking inspiration and actors trying to track down a new audition piece. It is also an exciting provocation that will have readers, both male and female, championing their own personal favorites.
The book is the culmination of a project by Tonic Theatre and the National Theatre Studio. Tonic Theatre was founded by Lucy Kerbel in 2011 to support the theatre industry in achieving greater gender equality in its workforces and repertoires; it partners with leading theatre companies around the UK on a range of projects, schemes and creative works. The National Theatre Studio provides support and resources for both emerging and established theatre-makers of outstanding talent, and contributes to the National’s ongoing search for and training of new artists.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848421851 |
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| Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group |
| Publication date: | 04/01/2014 |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.70(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Kate Mosse OBE is an English author and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages. In 1996 she co-founded the annual Orange Prize for Fiction (from 2014 the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction). She is a member of the Board of the National Theatre.
Table of Contents
Foreword Kate Mosse xi
Introduction xv
Acknowledgements xxii
1 Three Tall Women Edward Albee 2
2 Live Like Pigs John Arden 4
3 She Ventures and He Wins 'Ariadne' 6
4 The Assemblywomen Aristophanes 8
5 The Chalk Garden Enid Bagnold 10
6 The Amen Corner James Baldwin 12
7 Five Women Wearing the Same Dress Alan Ball 14
8 Ursula Howard Barker 16
9 The Madras House Harley Granville Barker 18
10 Numbers Kieron Barry 20
11 Contractions Mike Bartlett 22
12 Happy Days Samuel Beckett 24
13 The Enchantment Victoria Benedictsson 26
14 Summer Edward Bond 28
15 The Jewish Wife Bertolt Brecht 30
16 Welcome to Thebes Moira Buffini 32
17 Di and Viv and Rose Amelia Bullmore 34
18 The Witlings Frances Burney 36
19 Tejas Verdes Fermín Cabal 38
20 The Mai Marina Carr 40
21 The Unnatural Tragedy Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle 42
22 Top Girls Caryl Churchill 44
23 Three Women and a Piano Tuner Helen Cooper 46
24 Breath, Boom Kia Corthron 48
25 Blithe Spirit Naël Coward 50
26 Attempts on Her Life Martin Crimp 52
27 Byrthrite Sarah Daniels 54
28 Playhouse Creatures April De Angelis 56
29 The Women in the Window Alma De Groen 58
30 Widows Ariel Dorfman 60
31 Rita, Sue and Bob Too Andrea Dunbar 62
32 The Heresy of Love Helen Edmundson 64
33 Women of Troy Euripides 66
34 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Rainer Werner Fassbinder 68
35 Fefu and Her Friends María Irene Fornés 70
36 Dancing at Lughnasa Brian Friel 72
37 The Maids Jean Genet 74
38 A Chat with Mrs Chicky Evelyn Glover 76
39 Vassa Zheleznova Maxim Gorky 78
40 trade debbie tucker green 80
41 Just of Get Married Cicely Mary Hamilton 82
42 The Children's Hour Lillian Hellman 84
43 Cockroach Sam Holcroft 86
44 Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen 88
45 Airswimming Charlotte Jones 90
46 4.48 Psychosis Sarah Kane 92
47 Goodbye, My Fancy Fay Kanin 94
48 it felt emplty when the heart went at first but it is alright now Lucy Kirkwood 96
49 Chamber Music Arthur Kopit 98
50 Men Should Weep Ena Lamont Stewart 100
51 More Light Bryony Lavery 102
52 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Ray Lawler 104
53 The Daughter-in-Law D.H. Lawrence 106
54 August: Osage County Tracy Letts 108
55 Pax Deborah Levy 110
56 The House of Bernarda Alba Federico García Lorca 112
57 The Women Clare Baathe Luce 114
58 Warp and Woof Edith Lyttelton 116
59 The Boston Marriage David Mamet 118
60 The Killing of Sister George Frank Marcus 120
61 Collected Stories Donald Margulies 122
62 Low Level Panic Clare McIntyre 124
63 Whale Music Anthony Minghella 126
64 Loyal Women Gary Mitchell 128
65 Splendour Abi Morgan 130
66 This Wide Night Chloë Moss 132
67 girl Megan Mostyn-Brown 134
68 Iron Rona Munro 136
69 Little Gem Elaine Murphy 138
70 Intimate Apparel Lynn Nottage 140
71 A Kind of Alaska Harold Pinter 142
72 The Beau Defeated Mary Pix 144
73 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Jay Presson Allen from Muriel Spark 146
74 Dream Pill Rebecca Prichard 148
75 Time and the Conways J. B Priestley 150
76 Phedra Jean Racine 152
77 Separate Tables Terence Rattigan 154
78 The Steamie Tony Roper 156
79 In the Next Room, or the vibratory play Sarah Ruhl 158
80 Kindertransport Diane Samuels 160
81 fro colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf ntozake shange 162
82 Doubt John Patrick Shanley 164
83 Aunt Dan and Lemon Wallace Shawn 166
84 The Odd Couple Neil Simon 168
85 Dear Octopus Dodie Smith 170
86 The Stepmother Githa Sowerby 172
87 Five Kinds of Silence Shelagh Stephenson 174
88 Nine Till Six Aimée Philip Stuart 176
89 Brontë Polly Teale 178
90 Love Story of the Century Märta Tikkanen Clare Venables 180
91 Les Belles Soeurs Michel Tremblay 182
92 Crooked Catherine Trieschmann 184
93 The Oldest Profession Paula Vogel 186
94 Don Juan Comes Back From the War Ödön von Horváth 188
95 The New Electric Ballromm Enda Walsh 190
96 New Anatomies Timberlake Wertenbaker 192
97 Be My Baby Amanda Whittington 194
98 Lady Windermere's Fan Oscar Wilde 196
99 Suddenly Last Summer Tennessee Williams 198
100 Mrs Klein Nicholas 200
10 Great Plays for One Women 203
Finally... 209
Plays by Title 210
Chronology of Plays 212