Ebook: 100 Great Plays For Women

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.;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.