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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword by Kate Mosse; Introduction; Acknowledgements; 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. |
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15. Bertolt Brecht, The Jewish Wife16. 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. |
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30. Ariel Dorfman, Widows31. 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; 38. Evelyn Glover, A Chat with Mrs Chicky; 39. Maxim Gorky, Vassa Zheleznova; 40. debbie tucker green, trade; 41. Cicely Mary Hamilton, Just to Get Married; 42. Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour; 43. Sam Holcroft, Cockroach; 44. Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler. |
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45. Charlotte Jones, Airswimming46. Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis; 47. Fay Kanin, Goodbye, My Fancy; 48. Lucy Kirkwood, it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now; 49. Arthur Kopit, Chamber Music; 50. Ena Lamont Stewart, Men Should Weep; 51. Bryony Lavery, More Light; 52. Ray Lawler, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll; 53. D.H. Lawrence, The Daughter-in-Law; 54. Tracy Letts, August: Osage County; 55. Deborah Levy, Pax; 56. Federico García Lorca, The House of Bernarda Alba; 57. Clare Boothe Luce, The Women; 58. Edith Lyttelton, Warp and Woof; 59. David Mamet, The Boston Marriage. |
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60. Frank Marcus, The Killing of Sister George61. Donald Margulies, Collected Stories; 62. Clare McIntyre, Low Level Panic; 63. Anthony Minghella, Whale Music; 64. Gary Mitchell, Loyal Women; 65. Abi Morgan, Splendour; 66. Chloë Moss, This Wide Night; 67. Megan Mostyn-Brown, girl.; 68. Rona Munro, Iron; 69. Elaine Murphy, Little Gem; 70. Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel; 71. Harold Pinter, A Kind of Alaska; 72. Mary Pix, The Beau Defeated; 73. Jay Presson Allen from Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; 74. Rebecca Prichard, Dream Pill; 75. J.B. Priestley, Time and the Conways. |
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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 an. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
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Drama -- 20th century -- Bibliography.
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Drama -- 21st century -- Bibliography.
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Women in literature.
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Drama. |
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Women in literature. |
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Electronic books. |
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Bibliography.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781780012957 : $15.49 |
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1780012950 : $15.49 |
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