Women Centre Stage - Eight Short Plays by and about Women
by Winsome Pinnock

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"'Women Centre Stage' by Winsome Pinnock features eight short plays that reflect women's experiences while allowing flexibility in casting to include diverse actors."

From: Gender-Neutral Casting Plays

Synopsis

Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform.

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.

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.

Publication

Publisher Nick Hern Books
Year 2019
Pages 152
Language English
ISBN-13 9781848427693
ISBN-10 1848427697
eISBN-13 9781788500562
LCC PR1272.2.W6 2018

Women Centre Stage - Eight Short Plays by and about Women is a British play written by Winsome Pinnock and published by Nick Hern Books (2019).

Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books (eISBN 9781788500562).

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