"Front Lines" is a pathbreaking collection of the most important, critically acclaimed plays written by the country s leading contemporary female playwrights. Including seven full scripts and accompanying materials, "Front Lines" provides both major examples of the playwright s craft and an essential introduction to the politically inspired work of female dramatists of the twenty-first century.
Here is Jessica Blank s widely heralded "The Exonerated" (written with Erik Jensen), based on interviews with American prisoners incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. Also included is...
"Front Lines" is a pathbreaking collection of the most important, critically acclaimed plays written by the country s leading contemporary female p...
Drama / Characters: 5m, 3f Winner 2004 NEA "Access to Excellence Award," in collaboration with New Theatre, FL, Finalist 2001 New American History Play Prize The story takes place in 1932, the last time Clarence Darrow pleads in a criminal court of law. Set in various places in Chicago and Hawaii, Darrow with his wife, Ruby, travels to Honolulu to defend a Pearl Harbor Naval Lieutenant accused of shooting a Hawaiian who allegedly led a gang rape on the Lieutenant's wife.
Drama / Characters: 5m, 3f Winner 2004 NEA "Access to Excellence Award," in collaboration with New Theatre, FL, Finalist 2001 New American History P...
Drama / Characters: 5f / Simple Set Nominee 2006 Joseph Jefferson nomination as Best New Chicago Play of the Year All Through the Night speaks directly with a warning for today. Set during and after the Third Reich, a stylistic, surrealistic play inspired by interviews with German Gentile women. The play sweeps from their teen years through adulthood during the Holocaust and beyond. The Nazi Regime impacts the women's lives as they struggle over work, religion, marriage and motherhood. Making overwhelmingly hard choices, they survive or succumb to Hitler's Reign and are changed forever. A...
Drama / Characters: 5f / Simple Set Nominee 2006 Joseph Jefferson nomination as Best New Chicago Play of the Year All Through the Night speaks direct...
This is a powerful, true drama of six women who went to Viet Nam five nurses and a country western singer booked by an unscrupulous agent to entertain the troops. The play portrays each young woman before, during, and after her tour in the war torn jungle and ends as each leaves a personal token at The Wall in Washington.
A Piece of My Heart premiered in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club, and now has enjoyed over 1000 productions here and abroad. It has recently been named "The most enduring play on...
Full Length, Drama
Characters: 1 male, 6 female
Unit set
This is a powerful, true drama of six women who went to Viet Nam five ...
Set one hundred years ago in Paris, The Radiant centers on the true, tempestuous, and love-torn life of Madame Marie Curie. Widowed at thirty-nine, with two young children to raise and support, she becomes involved in a scandalous affair with her young married assistant, an affair which rocks Paris and nearly costs her her career - and her life. But, she survives this and the great bias against women scientists throughout Europe then and goes on to discover and isolate radium, earn two Nobel Prizes, and revolutionize the world of science forever, ushering in "The Atomic Age" and the...
Set one hundred years ago in Paris, The Radiant centers on the true, tempestuous, and love-torn life of Madame Marie Curie. Widowed at thirty-n...
