Download or read book Short Plays with Great Roles for Women written by Suzette Coon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Plays with Great Roles for Women is an antidote to the traditional underrepresentation of women on stage, by offering twenty-two short plays that put women right at the centre of the action. The push for more women’s roles has gathered force over the last few years, and this collection is part of that movement, with rich, intelligent roles for women of all ages and backgrounds. This anthology offers a vital slice of life, addressing relevant and diverse topics such as: a young, Islamic woman coming out to her religious mother; black women’s navigation of the natural hair movement; bullying in a small-town American school; social media addiction; and the trials and tribulations of family life. Plays from award-winning playwrights are supported by original production details and playwrights’ afterwords, forming a broad and comprehensive collection of complete texts that offer full character journeys. Appealing to aspiring performers, playwrights, directors and students, Short Plays with Great Roles for Women is an essential resource for actor training, assessments, showcases, show-reels, short films and theatre performances.
Download or read book Women Centre Stage written by Winsome Pinnock and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Not Sink by Georgia Christou looks at duty, love and dependency across three generations of women. In Wilderness by April De Angelis, a patient and her psychiatrist head into the wilderness to find out how sane any of us really are. In Chloe Todd Fordham’s The Nightclub, three very different women at a gay nightclub in Orlando are caught up in a terrifying hate crime. Fucking Feminists by Rose Lewenstein is a fiercely funny investigation of what feminism means, and what it has become. Winsome Pinnock’s Tituba is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials. In The Road to Huntsville by Stephanie Ridings, a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row finds herself crossing the line. White Lead by Jessica Siân explores the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman. In What is the Custom of Your Grief? by Timberlake Wertenbaker, an English schoolgirl whose brother has been killed on active duty in Afghanistan is befriended online by an Afghan girl. -- Publisher website
Download or read book Kick Ass Plays for Women written by Jane Shepard and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2f per play / Drama / Unit set Award-winning new playwright Jane Shepard comes to print with four powerful short plays for women. Edgy, original, and with a darkly funny humanity, here are four pieces that give new muscle to actresses, providing roles of exceptional range. All successfully produced on the New York stage, each play features two-woman casts, with age-open roles, in work that explores our tender, brave, and sometimes brutal search for meaning. Includes both comedy and drama, with
Download or read book It s Her Say written by Stage Partners and published by Stage Partners. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Her Say, a collection of short plays that focus on the female experience, can be used in the classroom for scene study or licensed for production. Ranging from historical fiction to social consciousness to shifting friendships to horror comedy, each play is written by a female-identifying theatre teacher who knows exactly what young performers are capable of and what kind of work they are eager to perform. This collection includes the following short plays: Some Things Never Change by Jane Best I Said Run. by Rachel Bublitz The Women's Land Army by Stephanie Buckley Beauty Kweenz by Diana Burbano Talk to Me About Home by Eugenie Carabatsos The Boot by Emily Hageman Angela and Angie and Cynthia by Patty MacMullen The Stakeout by K. Alexa Mavromatis The Un-Help Desk by Emily McClain Girl, Period by Stephanie Shearer Drama/Comedy Short Play Collection. Each play is 10-20 minutes. 10-20 actors, flexible casting (These plays can be licensed together or separately. If you license the whole collection, you have permission to pick and choose which plays to perform.)
Download or read book 100 Great Plays for Women written by Lucy Kerbel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important, landmark survey dispels the myth that there aren't any good plays for women.
Download or read book Contemporary Stage Roles for Women written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985-02-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product information not available.
Download or read book Three One act Plays about the Elderly written by Elyse Nass and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An upbeat collection of three short plays with excellent roles for older actors. These plays have been performed in full productions and done as staged readings and as readers theatre. Included in this collection: Admit One The Cat Connection Second Chance
Download or read book The Brothers Size written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison-mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that beg
Download or read book Silent Sky written by Lauren Gunderson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. As Henrietta, in her free time, attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with family obligations and the possibility of love. The true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. Social progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications; Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers believe in both, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
Download or read book Chicks and Other Short Plays written by Grace McKeaney and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 5 Minute Plays written by Lawrence Harbison and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays in this volume of 5-Minute Plays are geared toward adults. Some are comedic, some are dramatic, some are realistic in style, while others are more unconventional. Their length makes them perfect for scene work in class. A few of the plays are written by playwrights who have established quite a reputation with their full-length plays, such as Don Nigro, Lee Blessing, Y York, and Sheila Callaghan. But most are by what I call exciting up-and-comers, such as Nicole Pandolfo, Merridith Allen, Andrew Biss, Adam Kraar, Stephanie Hutchinson, Judy Klass, John McKinney, Scott C. Sickles, Graham Techler, Eric Grant, Deanna Alisa Ableser, Kerri Kochanski, Lisa Bruna, and Grace Trotta.
Download or read book Tightly Bound written by Patrick Gabridge and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beautiful Man written by Erin Shields and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An eviscerating satire of gender roles in popular culture, Beautiful Man imagines a world in which women are the subjects and men the objects. As three women dissect the latest Hollywood blockbuster, narrative after narrative of strong female characters fold into each other, fusing into a brutally recognizable story. In Unit B-1717, a woman is trying to clean out her storage locker and say goodbye to the past, but an overwhelming feeling of dread forces her to confront the way she has historically subjugated herself to the needs of others. In And then there was you, a mother addresses her child as they both visit milestones that offered them each independence, and in the process explores how the profound connection between mother and child evolves."--
Download or read book The Best Short Plays 1988 1989 written by Ramon Delgado and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Lose yourself in a universe of forces familiar and frightening in the 21 plays presented in this exclusive volume. The playwrights included here succeed in pushing back the boundaries of conventional dramatic expression. Among them, Lanford Wilson dissects a survivor's anguish after his lover's death in A Poster of the Cosmos and Deborah Pryor spins an eerie tale of spellbinding romance in The Love Talker . Richard Greenberg plots a battle of wills between a young writer and his elusive muse, while Sheila Walsh examines the exchange of a woman's soul for her husband's fame in Molly and James . From the starkly realistic to the fantastic, these plays challenge their audiences to confront the universal from a new perspective.
Download or read book Thousands of Noras written by Sherry Engle and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of Noras: Short Plays by Women, 1875-1920 provides an international collection of dramatic works written by women that draw attention to the power and range of voices of several generations of women writers. Sketches, monologues, duologues and plays from the United States, England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are represented. It includes works by playwrights considered marginal, as well as lesser-known works by established writers such as Elizabeth Baker, Catherine Amy Dawson-Scott, Ruth Draper, Miles Franklin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Amy Levy, Katherine Mansfield, and Netta Syrett. Divided into three thematic sections, this volume includes plays that focus on women's aspiration for higher education, their need for paid employment, and the disillusionment often experienced in the working world. It offers pieces that address social activism-campaigns for the vote, for national independence in Ireland, for temperance, and for workers' rights. And it presents lighter fare where writers satirize women's clubs, contemporary fads, and even theatre-going and playwriting.
Download or read book Little Women written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
Download or read book The Play That Goes Wrong written by Henry Lewis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. They are delighted that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand in their way. However, hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls? The Play That Goes Wrong is a farcical murder mystery, a play within a play, conceived and performed by award-winning company Theatre Mischief. It was first published as a one-act play and is published in this new edition as a two-act play.
