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Three ageless, timeless, deathless sisters in a basement in Bushwick One of them falls in love Another falls in hate The third tries to keep the other two from falling some pictures of the floating world Shiloh is happy! Someday she and her friends in the Word of Joy will be called to the Floating World Then, a stranger arrives malefactions Four women on fire come together for an act of rebellion against the world that forgot them wreck[s] A sad young prince arrives at the Oracle because that's where he's supposed to be A priestess rummages through his past and plunges headlong into his future The prince's name is Oedipus troy is burning (a goat-song) The Trojan War enters its tenth year Helen of Troy is no longer welcome in the Trojan Women's Sewing Circle Achilles' son lives in his dead father's son All things come to an end friend of the people On July 13, 1793, a twenty-four year old girl stabs a man through the heart as he soaks in his bathtub and watches him bleed to death The man is Jean-Paul Marat, Hero of the French Revolution Friend of the People marvellous Young Audiences Verbatim, an orphan boy left on the steps of an abbey climbs an anchor that fell from the sky finds himself in a dream he’s been waiting for all his life and meets the girl who’s been popping up in it birdland (a tragedy) Jacobean Tragedy (with Music) In the smoke of a music hall the three best-beloved songbirds in all of Italy take their final bow Two of them fettered to fine-feathered husbands and the third flung back to their father's nest in a castle far away artaud artaud Antonin Artaud, Theatrical Sensation finds himself locked in an insane asylum His Double is there too a thing i cannot name / funny voices Lee and Leo are trying. They want This Thing To Work Out, they swear Watch them test every conceivable answer to the equation him + her + x = Love [solve for x] -- or die trying [available in two sizes: short and less short] stolen out of holy writ adaptationsthat sister play Chekhov
Once upon a time three sisters lived with their brother in a little house Will they ever get to Moscow? Will we still be talking about them a hundred years later? Will they find love? No, yes, and maybe antigone / we are the rebels asking for the storm Sophocles A body rots in the sun. A girl takes a stand against the new regime. What is she fighting for? How far can she go? children of the sun Gorky In Moscow, the people are rioting. Soldiers fire into the crowd. In the village, protestors march against the injustice of the Tsar and there's something in the water making everyone sick But Yelena and Pavel Protasov are going to stop all that, with science, art, and hope Probably hedda (gabler) Ibsen Hedda Tesman (née Gabler) has everything, but wants none of it But when an old flame flickers back under her palm something ignites a misanthrope Moliere less a translation than a distillation of Moliere's classic tale of the stagnation of a society weighed down by flattery and the one man who best knows what's the matter-y dreamplay Strindberg Agnes, Daughter of God, decides to give being human a go What could go wrong? a sea gull Chekhov If an actress her lover (a writer) the lover's mother (an actress) and the lover's mother's lover (a writer) fall in a forest do they make a sound? hors d'oeuvres short plays & fragmentsrotenberg
two women devour each other, literally and metaphorically if you want my heart (come and take it) Grusha loves Masha. Masha loves sadness. They are both vampires. the naming of things Adam and Eve have an awkward moment the last blockbuster in the whole entire world in bend, oregon it's the last day and everyone gets one free DVD but Beth doesn't want one the vvoke socially conscious John Proctologer decides to ask the local ladies what's afoot the shade a white girl takes her black gf to a civil war battlefield, and they meet a ghost birth of tragedy the greek gods are annoyed at humans, why are they so sad the genuine article non-fictionBoy Writes Girl for HowlRound: multi-part article series on female characters in the male theatrical canon (Introduction | He That Plays The King | What's Hecuba To Him)
How To Cure a Plague for HowlRound (article) Sam Shepard Series for Gathering of Tribes: an obituary/retrospective for the late, great American myth (article) and a review of his final work, Spy of the First Person (article) Interview with Lisa d'Amour for The Dramatist (article) The (W)right Stuff for Audition Rep Matchmaker (article) |
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