Synopsis
Women Centre Stage - Eight Short Plays by and about Women
Published by Nick Hern Books
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Eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage
Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, they offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform
The eight Plays are ...
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
And 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
Sphinx Theatre has been at the vanguard of promoting, advocating and inspiring women in the arts through productions, conferences and research for more than forty years
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