100 Great Plays For Women
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100 Great Plays For Women

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100 Great Plays For Women

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Lucy Kerbel's 100 Great Plays for Women is an inspiring guide to a hundred plays that put female performers centre stage, dispelling the myth that 'there 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 plays that put female performers centre stage.

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 featured are 10 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 favourites.

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.

'A gem of a book' Lucy Kerbel has done hard-working directors and artistic directors, of spaces large and small, a great service.' Kate Mosse, from her foreword

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Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9781780012957
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Theatre

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword by Kate Mosse
  5. Introduction
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1. Edward Albee, Three Tall Women
  8. 2. John Arden, Live Like Pigs
  9. 3. ‘Ariadne’, She Ventures and He Wins
  10. 4. Aristophanes, The Assemblywomen
  11. 5. Enid Bagnold, The Chalk Garden
  12. 6. James Baldwin, The Amen Corner
  13. 7. Alan Ball, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
  14. 8. Howard Barker, Ursula
  15. 9. Harley Granville Barker, The Madras House
  16. 10. Kieron Barry, Numbers
  17. 11. Mike Bartlett, Contractions
  18. 12. Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
  19. 13. Victoria Benedictsson, The Enchantment
  20. 14. Edward Bond, Summer
  21. 15. Bertolt Brecht, The Jewish Wife
  22. 16. Moira Buffini, Welcome to Thebes
  23. 17. Amelia Bullmore, Di and Viv and Rose
  24. 18. Frances Burney, The Witlings
  25. 19. FermĂ­n Cabal, Tejas Verdes
  26. 20. Marina Carr, The Mai
  27. 21. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, The Unnatural Tragedy
  28. 22. Caryl Churchill, Top Girls
  29. 23. Helen Cooper, Three Women and a Piano Tuner
  30. 24. Kia Corthron, Breath, Boom
  31. 25. Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
  32. 26. Martin Crimp, Attempts on Her Life
  33. 27. Sarah Daniels, Byrthrite
  34. 28. April De Angelis, Playhouse Creatures
  35. 29. Alma De Groen, The Woman in the Window
  36. 30. Ariel Dorfman, Widows
  37. 31. Andrea Dunbar, Rita, Sue and Bob Too
  38. 32. Helen Edmundson, The Heresy of Love
  39. 33. Euripides, Women of Troy
  40. 34. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
  41. 35. María Irene Fornés, Fefu and Her Friends
  42. 36. Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa
  43. 37. Jean Genet, The Maids
  44. 38. Evelyn Glover, A Chat with Mrs Chicky
  45. 39. Maxim Gorky, Vassa Zheleznova
  46. 40. debbie tucker green, trade
  47. 41. Cicely Mary Hamilton, Just to Get Married
  48. 42. Lillian Hellman, The Children’s Hour
  49. 43. Sam Holcroft, Cockroach
  50. 44. Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
  51. 45. Charlotte Jones, Airswimming
  52. 46. Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis
  53. 47. Fay Kanin, Goodbye, My Fancy
  54. 48. Lucy Kirkwood, it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now
  55. 49. Arthur Kopit, Chamber Music
  56. 50. Ena Lamont Stewart, Men Should Weep
  57. 51. Bryony Lavery, More Light
  58. 52. Ray Lawler, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
  59. 53. D.H. Lawrence, The Daughter-in-Law
  60. 54. Tracy Letts, August: Osage County
  61. 55. Deborah Levy, Pax
  62. 56. Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca, The House of Bernarda Alba
  63. 57. Clare Boothe Luce, The Women
  64. 58. Edith Lyttelton, Warp and Woof
  65. 59. David Mamet, The Boston Marriage
  66. 60. Frank Marcus, The Killing of Sister George
  67. 61. Donald Margulies, Collected Stories
  68. 62. Clare McIntyre, Low Level Panic
  69. 63. Anthony Minghella, Whale Music
  70. 64. Gary Mitchell, Loyal Women
  71. 65. Abi Morgan, Splendour
  72. 66. Chloë Moss, This Wide Night
  73. 67. Megan Mostyn-Brown, girl.
  74. 68. Rona Munro, Iron
  75. 69. Elaine Murphy, Little Gem
  76. 70. Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel
  77. 71. Harold Pinter, A Kind of Alaska
  78. 72. Mary Pix, The Beau Defeated
  79. 73. Jay Presson Allen from Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  80. 74. Rebecca Prichard, Dream Pill
  81. 75. J.B. Priestley, Time and the Conways
  82. 76. Jean Racine, Phedra
  83. 77. Terence Rattigan, Separate Tables
  84. 78. Tony Roper, The Steamie
  85. 79. Sarah Ruhl, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
  86. 80. Diane Samuels, Kindertransport
  87. 81. ntozake shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
  88. 82. John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
  89. 83. Wallace Shawn, Aunt Dan and Lemon
  90. 84. Neil Simon, The Odd Couple
  91. 85. Dodie Smith, Dear Octopus
  92. 86. Githa Sowerby, The Stepmother
  93. 87. Shelagh Stephenson, Five Kinds of Silence
  94. 88. Aimée and Philip Stuart, Nine Till Six
  95. 89. Polly Teale, Brontë
  96. 90. MĂ€rta Tikkanen with Clare Venables, Love Story of the Century
  97. 91. Michel Tremblay, Les Belles Soeurs
  98. 92. Catherine Trieschmann, Crooked
  99. 93. Paula Vogel, The Oldest Profession
  100. 94. Ödön von HorvĂĄth, Don Juan Comes Back From the War
  101. 95. Enda Walsh, The New Electric Ballroom
  102. 96. Timberlake Wertenbaker, New Anatomies
  103. 97. Amanda Whittington, Be My Baby
  104. 98. Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
  105. 99. Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer
  106. 100. Nicholas Wright, Mrs Klein
  107. 10 Great Plays for One Woman
  108. Finally

  109. Plays by Title
  110. Chronology of Plays
  111. Biographies
  112. Copyright Information