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Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is a British playwright known for dramatizing the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes. Celebrated for works such as Cloud 9 (1979), Top Girls (1982), Serious Money (1987), Blue Heart (1997), Far Away (2000), and A Number (2002), she has been described as "one of Britain's greatest poets and innovators for the contemporary stage". In a 2011 dramatists' poll by The Village Voice, five out of the 20 polled writers listed Churchill as the greatest living playwright. Read more on Wikipedia.
Elizabeth "Beth" Becker Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Her play Crimes of the Heart won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1981 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, and a nomination for a Tony Award. Her screenplay for Crimes of the Heart was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Read more on Wikipedia.
Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009). She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career. Two of her plays have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and she received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Play. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play The Heidi Chronicles. Read more on Wikipedia.
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- Dead Man's Cell Phone byPublication Date: 2008Dead Man's Cellphone is a work about how we remember the dead – and how that memorialization changes us. It is the journey of a woman forced to confront her presumptions about morality, redemption, and isolation in a technologically obsessed society.
- Dear Elizabeth byPublication Date: 2019From 1947 to 1977, poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop exchanged more than four hundred letters. Even as they were worlds apart, their connection was palpable, and their correspondence would become one of the greatest in American literary history. Dear Elizabeth gives voice to this deeply moving and intimate friendship between two of the greatest minds in American history.
- Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi byFour determinedly 'liberated' - and very different - women ricochet around a tiny shared flat, while trying to pull together the shattered strands of their lives: Dusa is struggling to regain her children from their father, Fish is losing her lover to another woman, Stas is on the game to finance the course she wants to study at university, while Vi steadfastly refuses.
- Plays by Susan Glaspell byPublication Date: 2019Includes the plays Trifles -- The people -- Close the book -- The outside -- Woman's honor -- Bernice -- Suppressed desires (in collaboration with George Cram Cook) -- Tickless time (in collaboration with George Cram Cook).
- Top Girls byPublication Date: 2010At a restaurant party thrown by Marlene of the Top Girls Employment Agency are Isabella Bird, the 19th-century traveller, Lady Nijo, courtesan to a 13th-century Japanese Emperor, Brueghel's Dull Gret, Pope Joan and Patient Griselda, wife of Chaucer's Clerk.
An American Daughter by Call Number: PS3573.A798 A8 1998ISBN: 9780151003327Publication Date: 1998Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in Georgetown. She is also the president's nominee for Surgeon General. When the media discovers that once, long ago, she failed to respond for jury duty, this relatively minor misstep is portrayed as a serious moral lapse. A good friend uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the implications, and Lyssa must suffer the consequences. From that moment on, Lyssa Dent Hughes sits helplessly as the press investigates her family and friends, shattering her privacy, her career, and her world. Wendy Wasserstein's trenchant humor and sizzling dialogue combine with biting political commentary to produce a masterful, and topical, drama.
Beth Henley Collected Plays by Call Number: PS3558.E4962 A6 2000ISBN: 1575252589Publication Date: 2000Includes "Am I Blue," "Crimes of the Heart," "The Lucky Spot," Impossible Marriage" and more.
The Heidi Chronicles by Call Number: PS3573.A798 H44 1989ISBN: 9780822205104Publication Date: 1989Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a successful art historian, as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly changing world.
In the Next Room by Call Number: PS3618.U48 I5 2010ISBN: 9780573698132Publication Date: 2010Characters: 3m, 4f / Interior In the Next Room or the vibrator play is a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat 'hysterical' women (and some men), the play centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household.
Intimate Apparel by Call Number: PS3564.O795 I58 2005ISBN: 9780822220091Publication Date: 2005The time is 1905, the place New York City, where Esther, a black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes.
Mad Forest: A Play from Romania by Call Number: PR6053.H786 M33 1994ISBN: 9780573693328Publication Date: 1994
Top Girls by Call Number: PR6053.H786 T6 1982ISBN: 9780573630231Publication Date: 1982Serious Comedy / Castin: 7f. with doubling / Ints. Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. In a time warp, these ladies are also her co workers, clients and relatives. Marlene, like her famous guests, has had to pay a price to ascend from proletarian roots to the executive suite: she has become, figuratively speaking, a male
Trifles by Call Number: PS3513.L35 T7 1951ISBN: 9780874406382Publication Date: 1951The wife of a strangled farmer is arrested on suspicion. While officers and neighbors are searching the old farmhouse for evidence, two women friends discover a slain canary and a broken cage. This evidence can prove the wife guilty, but by keeping her secret, they free her.
The Vagina Monologues by Call Number: PS3555.N75 V3 2001ISBN: 9780375756986Publication Date: 2000Drawing on conversations with hundreds of women about their genitalia, the author presents a collection of performance pieces from her show of the same name.
