100 great plays for women by Kerbel, Lucy, author, Mosse, Kate, 1961- writer of foreword instant download

100 great plays for women by Kerbel, Lucy, author, Mosse, Kate, 1961- writer of foreword instant download

xxii, 214 pages ; 21 cm, 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, Includes indexes, \"Reprinted with revisions in 2013\"--Title page verso, 1. Edward Albee, Three Tall Women. 2. John Arden, Live Like Pigs. 3. 'Ariadne', She Ventures and He Wins. 4. Aristophanes, The Assemblywomen. 5. Enid Bagnold, The Chalk Garden. 6. James Baldwin, The Amen Corner. 7. Alan Ball, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. 8. Howard Barker, Ursula. 9. Harley Granville Barker, The Madras House. 10. Kieron Barry, Numbers. 11. Mike Bartlett, Contractions. 12. Samuel Beckett, Happy Days. 13. Victoria Benedictsson, The Enchantment. 14. Edward Bond, Summer. 15. Bertolt Brecht, The Jewish Wife. 16. Moira Buffini, Welcome to Thebes. 17. Amelia Bullmore, Di and Viv and Rose. 18. Frances Burney, The Witlings. 19. Fermín Cabal, Tejas Verdes. 20. Marina Carr, The Mai. 21. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, The Unnatural Tragedy. 22. Caryl Churchill, Top Girls. 23. Helen Cooper, Three Women and a Piano Tuner. 24. Kia Corthron, Breath, Boom. 25. Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit. 26. Martin Crimp, Attempts on Her Life. 27. Sarah Daniels, Byrthrite. 28. April De Angelis, Playhouse Creatures. 29. Alma De Groen, The Woman in the Window. 30. Ariel Dorfman, Widows. 31. Andrea Dunbar, Rita, Sue and Bob Too. 32. Helen Edmundson, The Heresy of Love. 33. Euripides, Women of Troy. 34. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. 35. María Irene Fornés, Fefu and Her Friends. 36. Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa. 37. Jean Genet, The Maids.…