Women centre stage : eight short plays by and about women.

xix, 130 pages ; 20 cm.

How to not sink / Georgia Christou ; 3 characters (3 women). -- Wilderness / April De Angelis ; 2 characters (2 women). -- The nightclub / Chloe Todd Fordham ; 3 characters (3 women). -- Fucking feminists / Rose Lewenstein ; 5 characters (5 women) ; Unassigned lines. -- Tituba / Winsome Pinnock ; 1 character (1 woman) ; Monologues (women). -- The road to Huntsville / Stephanie Ridings ; 1 character (1 woman) ; Monologues (women). -- White lead / Jessica Siân ; 3 characters (3 women). -- What is the custom of your grief? / Timberlake Wertenbaker ; 2 characters (2 women).

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. -- Publisher website

9781848427693

822.920809287 W872 2018