100 Great Plays for Women
Title | 100 Great Plays for Women PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Kerbel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Lucy Kerbel's '100 great plays for women' is a guide to a hundred plays that put female performers centre stage, dispelling the myth that 'there aren't any good plays for women'. 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.
100 Great Plays for Women
Title | 100 Great Plays for Women PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Kerbel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9781848421851 |
This important, landmark survey dispels the myth that there aren't any good plays for women.
Plays by American Women, 1900-1930
Title | Plays by American Women, 1900-1930 PDF eBook |
Author | Judith E. Barlow |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9781557830081 |
Traces the contributions of women to the American theater and offers the texts of five plays that deal with a sick child, a murdered husband, and family life
Leading Women
Title | Leading Women PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Lane |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 642 |
Release | 2008-12-10 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0307487342 |
Gather any group of actresses, from students to stars, and someone will inevitably ask, "Where are all the great roles for women?" The roles are right here, in this magnificently diverse collection of plays–full-lenghts, one-acts, and monologues--with mainly female casts, which represent the answer to any actress's prayer. The editors of the groundbreaking anthology Plays for Actresses have once again gathered an abundance of strong female roles in a selection of works by award-winning authors and cutting-edge newer voices, from Wendy Wasserstein and Christopher Durang to Claudia Shear, Eve Ensler, and Margaret Edson. The characters who populate these seven full-length plays, four ten-minute plays, and eleven monologues include a vivid cross-section of female experience: girl gang members, Southern debutantes, pilots, teachers, traffic reporters, and rebel teenagers. From a hilarious take on Medea to a taboo-breaking excerpt from The Vagina Monologues to a moving scene from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, the plays in Leading Women are complex, funny, tragic, and always original--and a boon for talented actresses everywhere. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Kick Ass Plays for Women
Title | Kick Ass Plays for Women PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Shepard |
Publisher | Samuel French, Inc. |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN | 0573663432 |
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
100 Greatest American Plays
Title | 100 Greatest American Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas S. Hischak |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2017-03-06 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1442256060 |
Theatre in America has had a rich history—from the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway. Over the past few centuries, significant works by American playwrights have been produced, including Abie’s Irish Rose, Long Day’s Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, Fences, and Angels in America. In 100 Greatest American Plays, Thomas S. Hischak provides an engaging discussion of the best stage productions to come out of the United States. Each play is discussed in the context of its original presentation as well as its legacy. Arranged alphabetically, the entries for these plays include: plot details production history biography of the playwright literary aspects of the drama critical reaction to the play major awards the play’s influence cast lists of notable stage and film versions The plays have been selected not for their popularity but for their importance to American theatre and include works by Edward Albee, Harvey Fierstein, Lorraine Hansberry, Lillian Hellman, Tony Kushner, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, Gore Vidal, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson. This informative volume also includes complete lists of Pulitzer Prize winners for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for American Plays, and the Tony Award for Best Play. Providing critical information about the most important works produced since the eighteenth century, 100 Greatest American Plays will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural history of theatre.
Plays for Actresses
Title | Plays for Actresses PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Lane |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 643 |
Release | 1997-03-25 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0679772812 |
Gather any group of actresses, from students to stars, and someone will inevitably ask, "Where are all the great roles for women?" The roles are right here, in this unprecedented and magnificently diverse collection of plays with all-female casts. The seven full-length and ten one-act selections range in tone from the unabashed theatricality of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Three Tall Women to the blistering black comedy of Laura Cunningham's Beautiful Bodies. Their characters include uprooted Japanese war brides, outrageously liberated Shakespearean heroines, an avenging African American housewife, and nuns who double as Catholic schoolgirls. Whether you're looking for a script to produce or a scene for an acting class, this book will provide you with a wealth of juicy, challenging female roles as it introduces you to some of the finest playwrights at work today.