ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The following list gives updates on playwrights included in ...She Also Wrote Plays known to have written or had published new work since the guide was published together with references to new critical works that discuss listed playwrights and new editions of previously published plays. Please see ...She Also Wrote Plays for complete entries. If you know of any other additional works or new editions that should be included please email Susan Croft (see top page) or mail information and review copies to:
Susan
Croft c/o Theatre Museum, 1E Tavistock St, London WC2E 7PR,
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Newly added anthologies and critical sources which are referenced more than once below are given at the bottom of this page.
The (Bogus) Woman (1f), Oberon, 2000; Lady Chill, Lady Wad, Lady Lurve, Lady God (14f, 14m+) in International Connections, 2002; Animal (1f,2m) Oberon, 2003; Bites (3f,2m) Oberon, 2005
See also: Starck
Anowa (1970) also in Gilbert
See also Holledge and Tompkins
See also: "Social Critique and Theatrical Power in the Plays of Isidora Aguirre" by Adam Versenyi in Larson and Vargas
Magical City (MS, 1915)
Plays include: The Guitarron (1f,6m,dp,1982) in Osborn; The Reincarnation of Jaimie Brown (3f,5m,1994) in Smith 1994; On Sundays (1f,2m,1981) in Halpern; Hidden Parts (2f,2m,1983) Maplewood, NJ: Waterfront Press, 1988; Eddie Mundo Edmundo (3f,4m,1996) in New Plays from ACT's Young Conservatory, Smith and Kraus, c1996; The Wonderful Tower of Humbert Lavoignet (1f,4m,1984) BPP, 1990.; Don Juan of Seville (6f,16m+,dp, 1990 tr. from Tirso de Molina); Thin Air: Tales from a Revolution (5f,8m+,dp,1989) All in Lynne Alvarez Collected Plays vol 1, Lyme, NH: Smith & Kraus, 1998; Analiese (8f,9m,dp) in Smith 1997; A Night in the Desert (MS?)
See also: interview in Greene
Extracts various in Bonney
See also Laurie Anderson by RoseLee Goldberg, Thames and Hudson, 2000
1927-1982
Arden also published, in 1978, You Don't Know What You Want, Do You? (Polyantric Press). She committed suicide in 1982.
See also: The Darkness We Carry by Roberta Skloot, Wisconsin UP, 1988
The Visit also in Caines
See also: Jane Austen and the Theatre by Paula Byrne, London and NY: Hambledon and London, 2002
Joanna BAILLIE
See also: Burroughs
Djuna BARNES
The Death of Life (1f,2+m1916), At the Root of the Stars (3f, 1917), Maggie of the Saints (3f, 1917), A Passion Play (2f,4m, 1919), Madame Collects Herself (3f,1m, 1918), Three from the Earth (1f,3m, 1919), Kurzy of the Sea (3f,2m), An Irish Triangle (2f) , Little Drops of Rain (2f,1922) , Five Thousand Miles (1f,1m,1923) , Two Ladies Take Tea (2f,1923) , To the Dogs (1f,1m, 1929) , The Dove (3f, prod. 1926, pub. 1929), Water-Ice (2f,1m,1923) , The Beauty (1f,4m, 1923), She Tells Her Daughter (2f, 1923) all in At the Root of the Stars: the Short Plays Los Angeles: the Sun and Moon Press, 1995
1932-2001
The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, also in Barr
Earlier plays include Saskia's Version and Strange Brew
Camelot School (7f,6m, 1999), The Misandrist (an angry comedy); Revenge of the Amazons: all Women's Play Press
1941-2000
Vanessa BROOKS
Queen's English (Watford, 2005, MS, 2f,3m)
Loveplay (3f,3m,id) Faber, 2000; Dinner (3f,4m, Faber, 2002); Jordan (with Anna Reynolds, 1f, 1992) in Singular; Dying For It (4f, 8m, freely adaptated from Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide) Faber, 2007
The Witlings also in Caines
See also: Burroughs
See also "Translating Women into Irish Theatre History" by Mary Trotter in Watt, Morgan and Mustafa
Angela CARTER
Further stage adaptations include Margaret Wilkinson's version of The Tiger's Bride (Gulbenkian Studio Newcastle, 2001); Wise Children (for radio by Bryony Lavery)
The Convent of Pleasure (5+f,9m,1668) ed. Jennifer R. Rowsell, Seventeenth Century Press, 1995 and with Love's Adventures (11f, 9m, 1662), The second part of Love's Adventures (7f,7m+x, 1662), Bell in Campo (7+f,9+m,1662), The second part of Bell in Campo (5+f,6+m,1662), The Bridals (5+f,10m,1668) in The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays ed. Anne Shaver, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1999; The Sociable Companions ed. Amanada Holton, Seventeenth Century Press, 1995
A Bold Stroke for a Wife also in Caines
A festival of all 23 of Christie's plays was staged at Westcliff-on-Sea in Summer 2001. Besides those mentioned in Christie's entry they are: An Afternoon at the Seaside, The Rats, The Patient (three one-act plays) London: French, 1963; Alibi (1928), Cards on the Table (1981), Fiddlers Three (1972), Love from a Stranger (1936), The Murder at the Vicarage (1949), A Murder is Announced (1977), Peril at End House (1940) and Rule of Three (1962).
Jane CHAMBERS
Last Summer at Bluefish Cove also in Chloe Plus Olivia: an Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present ed. Lillian Faderman NY: Penguin Books, 1995
A Number (2m), NHB, 2002; Drunk Enough to Say I Love You (2m, NHB, 2006)
Fiction includes Deal with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot (Ballantyne Books, 1993), What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day; I Wish I Had a Red Dress (Orion, 2001)
See also: interview in Greene
Lips NY: Broadway Play Publishing, 2000, Dog Opera also NY: Samuel French, 2001
See also: interview in Greene
Trish COOKE
See also: Griffin
Patricia CORNELIUS
Love was winner of the 2003 Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award in Australia. Other plays include You Still Here?, Platform, Hog's Hairs and Leeches.
Love (2f,1m) and Fever (with Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Reeves, & Andrew Bovell) in Collection #5, Australia Script Centre,
The Belle's Stratagem also in Caines
Katy Did in The Smart Set, Feb 1909; Mrs Molly in The Smart Set, April 1909
Fur (2f,1m) in Svich and Marrero and in Theatre Forum issue 13
See also: interview in Greene; 'Honouring Mystery' in Svich ed.; Svich in Gale and Gardner, 2004
Manuscripts in Theatre Museum, London
Morning Glory (4f,2m) Faber, 2001, Taking Breath (6f,4m) in Graham-Adriani ‘99; Cross My Heart and Hope to Fly (MS, radio, 2002), The Long Wait (radio, MS, 2004); Partial Eclipse of the Heart (radio, 2004)
See also: Starck
Margarett D'ARCY
See also: Loose Theatre: Memoirs of a Guerilla Theatre Activist by D'Arcy, Victoria BC and Crewe, UK: Trafford Publishing, 2005
Soft Vengeance (2f,2m) in Sealey; A Laughing Matter, (4f,7m) Faber 2002, Headstrong (6f,7m+) in Shell Connections, 2004; Wild East (2f,1m) Faber, 2004; Catch by April de Angelis with Stella Feehily, Tanika Gupta, Chloe Moss and Laura Wade, (5f,3m, id) Oberon, 2006
"Neither Here Nor There: the Liminal Position of Teresa Deevy and her Female Characters" by Christie Fox in Watt, Morgan and Mustafa
Out of the Pirate's Playhouse (MS, radio, 2003)
See also: Starck
Dowie has also written the short film Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again and the novel Creating Chaos
The Year of the Monkey (1f), Methuen, 2001 and with Designs for Living (3f), Sodom (1f,3m,id) in The Year of the Monkey and Other Plays, Methuen, 2001; H to He: I'm Turning Into a Man (MS, 2004).
See also: Rose; Gabriele Griffin in Gale and Gardner, 2004, Starck
Eden Cinema, also in Barr
Mother Teresa is Dead (2f,2m,NHB, 2002), Gone to Earth (adapted from Mary Webb's novel, 3f,5m), NHB, 2004, Coram Boy dramatised from the novel by Jamila Gavin, NHB, 2005
See also: Starck
Nightflights (MS,2002); Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Rolling (TV, MS)
See also: Farrell and McDonald in Poggi and Rose; Delighting the Heart: a Notebook on Women Writers ed. Susan Sellers, London: the Women's Press, 1989
See also: Ferber: Edna Ferber and Her Circle by Julie Goldsmith Gilbert, NY: Applause, 1999
Michael FIELD (i.e Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper)
See also: We are Michael Field by Emma Donoghue, Bath: Absolute Press, 1998
Karen FINLEY
See also: essay by Timothy Wiles in Burkman and Roof
Kerstin Specht's biographical play on the author, Marieluise was presented at London's Gate Theatre, translated Rachael McGill, in 2004
See also: Conducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes ed. Maria Delgado and Caridad Svich, Lyme, NH: Smith and Kraus, 1999
Sawing the Lady in Half (MS, 2003)
See also Rose
The Appreciators: a Wooing in The Smart Set, Dec,1904; Miss Lulu Bett, Kessinger Publishing Co, 2004 also Dodo Press, 2007
See also Holledge and Tompkins
Strip 95 (1f,1m) tr. M Feitlowitz in Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform ed. Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino, Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003; In the Country (MS, adapted by Francoise Kourilsky, NY)
See also: "Reenacting Politics: the Theater of Griselda Gambaro" by Becky Boling in Larson and Vargas
The Little Mermaid (from Hans Christian Anderson, developed with Sphinx, 4f,2m) Oberon, 2004
See also: Rose
Boy Gets Girl (3f,4m, 2001), Blue Surge (3f,2m,2002); The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (3f,2m, 2004) All Faber.
See also: Nicola Shaughnessy in Gale and Gardner, 2004
Shetland Saga (5f,3m), London: NHB, 2000
See also: discussion in Poggi and Rose, Starck
Jitterbug (MS, 2001); Walking Against the Wind (radio poem, 2004), Bones (radio)
See also Bird in CTR, Winter 1991
Voices in the Wind (MS); A River Sutra (MS); On the Couch with Enoch (MS); Sanctuary, Oberon, 2002; Inside Out (2f), Oberon, 2002; Fragile Land (2f,4m), Oberon, 2003; When We Are Married (adaptation, 2004), The Country Wife (adaptation from Wycherley, 4f,7m) Oberon, 2005, The Good Woman of Setzuan (adaptation, MS); The Parting (radio, 2004), Gladiator Games (1f,4m) Oberon, 2005; Sugar Mummies (5f,4m) Oberon, 2006; Catch by Tanika Gupta,with Stella Feehily, April de Angelis, Chloe Moss and Laura Wade, Oberon, 2006
See also: 'An Advocate for Change', interview in Svich ed.; Griffin
Has adapted her novel Dogeaters to the stage (NY, 2001)
Black: Her Story (The Mexican Mother meets the Oldest Living Virgin of Manila) (1f) in Bonney
Nightingale and Chase (1f,1m, 2001); Midwinter (1f,4m, 2004) Solstice (4f,4m) All Faber; Silver Whale Fish (radio, MS), Master of the House (radio, MS)
A Wife to be Lett also in Caines
See also: interview in Greene
Judith HERZBERG
Herzberg is also a translator
1923-2002
Dorothy HEYWARD
Porgy in The Theatre Guild Anthology vol 1, Kessinger Publishing Co., 2005
Plays include: Arrangements (radio, MS,1981), Out on the Floor (Stratford East, MS, 1981), Away from It All (RSC, MS,1982), All You Deserve (MS, 1983), Touch and Go (MS,1984), Revelations (MS,1985)
See also: PI 1,1985
Tea in Lane and Shengold, 1997
Appearances in Plays for Actresses NY: Vintage, 1997
See also: interview in Greene
World Without End (1f) in Champagne, ext. in Bonney.
See also: interview in Savran
Lovers Vows also in Caines
See also: Burroughs
Nasty Neighbours (written and directed for screen, 2000), Tribute (documentary about Danish singing duo, Nina and Frederick, directed for screen, 2002)
See also: Starck
Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2004. She has also translated Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest into German
Clara S: a Musical Tragedy (tr. Anthony Vivis, 8+f,2m) in Barr; Sickness or Modern Woman (1987, tr Fiona Templeton - see Playservice.net)
Eva JOHNSON
See also: Fensham and Varney
Little Baby Nothing (MS, 2003); Through the Wire (7f,9m, 3m/f) in Shell Connections: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, 2005; The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret (1f) in Singular
The Singing Group (MS,2002); Exclude Me (MS, 2003); Release the Beat (MS, book of the musical, 2004); The Willow Pattern (3f,3m, 3 f/m+) in Shell Connections, 2004
Humble Boy (3f,3m) Faber, 2001 Also with Airswimming (2f, 1997); In Flame (4f,2m,1999); Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis (4f,2m, 1999) in Charlotte Jones: Plays One, Faber and Faber, 2004; Bessie and Bell (TV), Mother’s Ruin (TV); The Dark (3f,4m, Faber, 2004); The Woman in White (book of musical from Wilkie Collins, music by Andrew Lloyd-Webber); The Lightning Play (4f,4m, Faber, 2006). Radio includes: The Sound of Solitary Waves (MS, 2003); Dolly's Mexican Wave (MS, 2005), Mary Something Takes the Veil (MS, ), A Seer of Sorts (MS), Future Perfect (MS), Sea Symphony for Piano and Child (MS, 2001), Magpie Stories
See: Humble Beginnings: the National Theatre at Work, by Robert Butler, NT Publications, 2001
Somewhere Over the Balcony (with Charabanc Theatre Company, 3f) in Gilbert; Now You're Talkin' (with Charabanc, MS, 1985); The Blind Fiddler (MS); Weddins, Wee'ins and Wakes (MS,2001); Crismas Eve Can Kill You (MS,2002) . For Dubbeljoint Theatre Company: Hang All the Harpers (with Shane Connaughton, MS, 1991); Eddie Bottom's Dream (MS, 1996), Christmas Eve Can Kill You (MS, 1991). For Replay TIE: Under Napoleon's Nose (MS, 1998); It's a Waste of Time Tracy (MS, 1989); The Cow the Ship and the Indian (MS, 1991); Don't Look Down (MS,1991); Hiring Days (MS, 1992); Yours Truly (MS, 1993).
See also: Stepping Stones: the Arts in Ulster 1971-2001 ed. Mark Carruthers and Stephen Douds. Belfast: the Blackstaff Press, 2001; Starck
All listed plays plus Skin in Kane: Complete Plays, Methuen, 2002
See also: Love Me or Kill Me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes by Graham Saunders, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002; Ken Urban "An ethics of catastrophe" in PAJ 69, Starck
Take-Away (8f,7m +group) in International Connections, 2002; Trumpet (adapted by Grace Barnes from Kay's novel, MS, 2006); The Lamplighter (6f,1m) Bloodaxe Books, 2008 [inc. CDs]
See also: Starck; Griffin
See also: Starck
Jenny KEMP
Still Angela (5f,2m,id) Sydney: Currency Press, 2002
See also: Fensham and Varney
Various plays inc. June and Jean in Concert in The Adrienne Kennedy Reader intro by Werner Sollors, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001
See also: Paul K. Bryant-Jackson in Harrison, Walker and Edwards; Elaine Aston in Gale and Gardner, 2004; Bean; essay by Jeanne Colleran in Burkman and Roof.
Maggie Margalita also in Swortzell
See also: interview in Greene
Bryony LAVERY
Frozen (2f,1m) Faber 2002; Illyria (7f,8m+) in International Connections, 2002; Discontented Winter: House Remix (3f,8m+ many various) in Shell Connections, 2004, Dracula (from Bram Stoker, 5f,10m) Oberon, 2005. Radio includes: Brick Lane (with music by Graeme Miller), Who Sings the Hero?, The Smell of Him, Velma and Therese, Wise Children (dramatised from Angela Carter ), Last Easter (3f,1m) Faber 2004; Stockholm (1f,1m, with Frantic Assembly) Oberon, 2008
Maureen LAWRENCE
The Pergola (MS); also two plays for children for the Lancaster Theatre, and a play for Northern Studio Theatre, MS, 1985.Two novels: The Tunnel (1969) and Shadow on the Wall (1971).
See also: A Telling and a Keeping: a Writer's Autobiography London: the Women's Press, 1989
Tobsha LEARNER
Seven Acts of Love (As Witnessed by a Cat) (MS, 2002
Deborah LEVY
Unless (radio, adapted from the novel by Carol Shields, 2004)
See also: C.MacDonald in The Cambridge Guide to British Women Playwrights, Cambridge, CUP, 2001
Sonja LINDEN
Linden is Artistic Director of the company iceandfire which she founded after a writing residency at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture to use theatre to express the stories of asylum-seekers and refugees.
Call Me Judas (MS); The Jewish Daughter (MS); I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document... Given to me by a Young Lady from Rwanda (1f,1m, 2003) Aurora Metro,2004 ; Crocodile Seeking Refuge, (3f,4m, id) Aurora Metro, 2005; Asylum Monologues (MS, 2007)
Joan LITTLEWOOD
1914-2002
One of the most important directors of the twentieth century and a hugely inspiring individual, Joan Littlewood will be much missed.
Liz LOCHHEAD
Misery Guts (3f,5m), Scots version of Moliere's Le Misanthrope, NHB, 2002; Medea after Euripdes (8f,3m) NHB, 2000
See also: Caretti and Soncini and McDonald and discussion in Poggi and Rose
Cecilie LOVEID
Double Delight (4f, 1m, +4) extract tr. Janet Garton in Contemporary Norwegian Women's Writing selected and edited Janet Garton Norwich: Norvik Press, 1995
Claire LUCKHAM
The Girls in the Pool (MS, 1983); Blackbird (3f, 3m,MS, 2003); I (radio serial, 2003)
Robbie McCAULEY
Surviving Virginia (ext. 1f) in Bonney; Sally's Rape also in Bean
See also: Bean
Sharman MACDONALD
After Juliet (8f,7m+1) in Graham-Adriani ‘99 and Faber Connections, 2001, The Girl with Red Hair (6f,2m, Faber, 2005), Soft Fall the Sounds of Eden (radio, MS, 2004); Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear (radio, MS), Wild Flowers (screen)
See also: Starck
Clare McINTYRE
The Maths Tutor (MS, 2003)
See also: Starck
Karen MALPEDE
Prophecy (4f, 4m, dp)
NY: Theater Three Collaborative Inc., 2008
Emily MANN
Having Our Say NY: DPS, 1997; The House of Barnarda Alba (12+f tr. from Federico Garcia Lorca) in Smith 1997; The Cherry Orchard (from Chekhov, NY: DPS, 2001)
See also: interview in Greene
Katherine MANSFIELD
The Black Cap (1917) in The Persephone Quarterly, no 32, Winter 2006-7
Dacia MARAINI
Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client also in Barr
Jane MARTIN
See also: Barnets in Essays in Theatre, Canada, May 1999
Gcina MHLOPE
See also Holledge and Tompkins
May MILLER
1899-1995
Mary Russell MITFORD
See also: Shellard, Nicholson and Hindley; Burroughs
Cherrie MORAGA
The Hungry Woman: Mexican Medea (11f,1m) in Svich and Marrero also with Heart of the Earth: a Popol Vuh Story, NY: West End Press, 2001
See also: interview in Greene; Svich in Gale and Gardner, 2004
Hannah MORE
Sacred Dramas Kessinger Publishing Co., 2003
See also: Hannah More: the First Victorian by Anne Stott, Oxford UP, 2003; Burroughs
Lavonne MUELLER
The Only Woman General (1f,1m,id) in Miles 2002; Little Victories also in Miles, 2003
Rona MUNRO
Iron (2f) Methuen, 2002; Gilt (with Stephen Greenhorn and Isobel Wright, directed for 7:84 Theatre Company by Zinnie Harris, MS,2003)
See also: McDonald in Poggi and Rose, Starck
Heather NIMMO
I'll Write to Richie Benaud (radio, 3f,4m) in Collection #5 (Australian Script Centre, 2004)Banana Split (2002), The Other Woman (2004)
Marsha NORMAN
See also: essay by Timothy Wiles in Burkman and Roof
Meredith OAKES
Her Mother and Bartok (1f,1m) Oberon, 2001; Gilde (radio, 1998 with music by Gerald Barry, MS); Scenes from the Back of Beyond (Oberon, 2006)
Joyce Carol OATES
Bad Girls (4f,1m), Black Water (5f,5m), The Passion of Henry David Thoreau (3f,8m+dp), Here I Am (1f), Duet (1f,1m), Good To Know You (2f,2m), Poor Bibi(1f,2m +1m/f), Homesick(1f,1m), The Adoption (1f,3m +1m/f), No Next of Kin (1m), When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn't Want Me (1f) All in New Plays NY: Ontario Review Press, 1998; Tone Clusters (1f, 1m, 1mv), The Eclipse (2f,2m), How Do You Like Your Meat? (4f,4m), The Ballad of Love Canal (1f,3m), Under/Ground (1f,2m), Greensleeves (1f,1m), The Key (1f,2m), Friday Night (2f,3m), Black (1f,2m), I Stand Before You Naked (10f, 1mv, 1m/fv, dp), The Secret Mirror (5f,11m +x, dp), American Holiday (10f,12m,+v,+x, dp) All in 12 Plays NY: Dutton, 1991
Tamsin OGLESBY
Olive (8f,3m) in International Connections, 2002; US and Them (3f,4m, MS, 2003); Different Planes (radio, 2004); Only the Lonely (Faber, 2005)
Onsonye Tess ONWUEME
Riot in Heaven (1996), The Missing Face: musical drama for the voices of color (2f,4m,+ chorus1997). Both Africana Legacy Press. Shakara: dance-hall queen: a play about mothers and daughters, (5f,3m) San Francisco / Lagos: African Heritage Press, 2000; She Said It MS, 2001)
See also: critical volume in progress, ed. Maureen N. Eke
Suzan-Lori PARKS
Fucking A and In the Blood in Red Letter Plays, TCG, 2002; Topdog/Underdog (2m) , TCG 2002, NHB, 2003; In the Blood in Elam Jr and Alexander; The America Play also in Bean
See also: Bean, interview in Savran
Julia PASCAL
Far Above Rubies (MS, 1983); The Yiddish Queen Lear (7f,4m,dp), Woman in the Moon (6f,6m), Oberon, 2002; Crossing Jerusalem, The Golem, Year Zero, St Joan in Crossing Jerusalem and Other Plays, Oberon, 2003
Ludmila PETRUSCHEVSKAYA
Petruschevskaya's novels includeThe Time: Night (translation 1994)
Music Lessons, also in Barr
Winsome PINNOCK
Can You Keep a Secret? (8f10m+2) in Graham-Adriani ‘99; Let them Call it Jazz (radio from Jean Rhys, MS), Double Acts (radio, MS),
See also: Starck; Griffin
Aishah RAHMAN
See also: Andrew J. Nouryeh in Harrison, Walker and Edwards
Ayshe RAIF
Not My Problem, Tiller Girls (both radio,1999)
See also: Griffin
France RAME
See also: Rose; Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Harlequins of the Revolution by Joseph Farrell, Methuen, 2001
Aviva RAVEL
Gently Down the Stream (2m) in Canadian Mosaic II ed. Aviva Ravel, Simon and Pierre, 2000
Sylvia RAYMAN
Manuscripts in University of Bristol Women's Theatre Collection
Hannie RAYSON
Scenes from a Separation (with Andrew Bovell, MS 1995); Life After George also NHB, 2002
See also: Fensham and Varney
Christina REID
The King of the Castle (5f,4m) in Graham-Adriani ‘99; Les Miserables - the Play (Nottingham, MS, 1992)
See also "Translating Women into Irish Theatre History" by Mary Trotter and " "I've never been just me": Rethinking Women's Positions in the Plays of Christina Reid" by Carla J. McDonough in Watt, Morgan and Mustafa; Starck
Gerlind REINSHAGEN
Sunday's Children, also in Barr
Yasmine REZA
Life x 3 (2f,2m) Faber, 2000; Hammerklavier (MS, from her novel, 2003); Veronika (MS, based on Paolo Coelho's novel Veronika Decides to Die, 2004)
Anne RIDLER
1912-2001
In the 1970s Ridler began translating libretti including works by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Mozart. Her version of Cosi Fan Tutte for Opera North in 1988 was televised by Channel 4 and continues to be performed.
Elizabeth ROBINS
Manuscripts in Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas at Austin
Rachel ROSENTHAL
Filename: FUTURFAX (extract, 1f) in Bonney; ZONE in TDR169, Spring 2001
Susanna ROWSON,
Slaves in Algiers also in Eric Gardner
Jacqueline RUDET
See also: Griffin
Diane SAMUELS
The True Life Fiction of Mata Hari (2f,4m, NHB, 2002)
Sonia SANCHEZ
The Bronx is Next also in Bean
Carolee SCHNEEMAN
Interior Scroll (1f)
Ntozake SHANGE
See also: Shange in and Jean Young in Harrison, Walker and Edwards, interview in Savran
SISTREN
QPH (scripted by Hertencer Lindsay, 3f+f chorus and drummers) in Gilbert
See also: Di Cenzo and Bennett in Ariel 23,1, 1992; Sistren Song: Popular Theatre in Jamaica by H.Allison, London: War on Want, 1986
Anna Deavere SMITH,
Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992, also excerpts in Perkins and Uno and in Bonney (1994)
See also: Bean, interview in Savran
Dodie SMITH
See also: Dear Dodie: the Life of Dodie Smith by Valerie Grove, London: Pimlico, 1996
Susan SONTAG
1933-2004
Lady from the Sea, adaptation from Ibsen in Theater v29, no 1
SOR JUANA (INEZ DE LA CRUZ)
House of Desires (5f,8m) tr Catherine Boyle, Oberon Books, 2004; The Divine Narcissus / El Divino Narciso (dual language edition) annotated and tr.by Patricia Peters and Renee Domeier, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998
See also: The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: a Critical Study by Guillermo Schmidhuber, tr Shelby G. Thacker, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000
SPLIT BRITCHES
Double Agency (MS, 2001)
Gertrude STEIN
Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters also in Swortzell
Shelagh STEPHENSON
Ancient Lights (4f,2m, 2000), Mappa Mundi (2f,4m,+6), both Methuen; Through a Glass Darkly (radio, 2004)
Gladys Bronwen STERN
Stern's pre-1914 work includes A Dance at Dawn (MS, 1909) and For One Night Only (MS, 1911).
Harriet Beecher STOWE
Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Christian Slave in Eric Gardner
Meera SYAL
Bombay Dreams (musical with A.R.Rahman, 2002)
Fiona TEMPLETON
Recognition: a Poetic Play in PAJ Sept 2001
Judith THOMPSON
Pink, also in Gilbert; The Perfect Pie (4f) Playwrights Canada, 2002; My Pyramids Or: How I got Fired from the Dairy Queen, and Ended Up in Abu Ghraib, by Private Lynndie England (MS, 2005); Yellow Canaries, The Leaves of Forever; Habitat (2002);
See also: The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition by Craig Stewart Walker. Toronto: McGill-Queen's UP, 2001
Judy UPTON
Sliding with Suzanne (3f,3m), Methuen, 2001; Redundant (MS,2001); Team Spirit (5f,8m + chorus) in International Connections, 2002; Ashes and Sand (4f,3m), Stealing Souls (1f,1m), Sunspots (2f,2m), People on the River (5f,5m, 1997), Know Your Rights in Judy Upton Plays 1, Methuen, 2002
Paula VOGEL
See also: interview in Greene, interview in Savran
Naomi WALLACE
The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek also in Theatre Forum issue 13; The Inland Sea (6f,10m, Faber, 2002); The Retreating World (MS, 1m, 2003); A State of Innocence (1f,2m) and The Retreating World (1m) both in Two Into War (with plays by Fraser Grace) Oberon, 2005; Things of Dry Hours (1f,2m) Faber, 2007
See also: interview in Greene; 'The landscape remembers you' by Hilary Bell in Svich ed.
Michelene WANDOR,
Spilt Milk, in Plays Nine ed. R Rook, London: Arnold, 1981
Wendy WASSERSTEIN
1950-2006
An American Daughter (3f,6m+voices) NY: Harvest/ Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1998; Seven One Act Plays, DPS, 1999; Old Money NY: Harcourt Brace, 2002
See also: Wendy Wasserstein: Dramatizing Women, Their Choices and Their Boundaries by Gail Ciociola, Jefferson NC: McFarland, 1999, interview in Savran
Fay WELDON
A Splinter of Ice (TV, 1972); Big Women (TV, 1998); Madame Bovary Breakfast with Emma (MS, 2003)
Vivienne WELLBURN
1941-90
From a working-class background Wellburn was born in Scarborough and educated at Leeds University. Besides the plays already listed she contributed to Plays Ten (1977) a collection of short plays for schools and also published the non-fiction works Postnatal Depression (1980) and Below the Belt (1982).
Snakes and Ladders (4f,4m) and Vacant Possession (2f) in Rook
Timberlake WERTENBAKER
Jenufa (adapted from Czech playwright Gabriela Preissova's 1890 play, 7f,4m) Faber, 2007
See also: Rabillard in Essays in Theatre, Canada, May 1999, Starck
Valerie WINDSOR
See also: Starck
Christa WINSLOE
See also: Shellard, Nicholson and Hindley
Victoria WOOD
Wood has written the series Dinner Ladies for television and adapted her long-running sketch series Acorn Antiques as a musical (2004).
See also: Victoria Wood: the Biography by Neil Brandwood, London: Virgin Books, 2003
Virginia WOOLF
Stage adaptations based on Woolf's life and work include Room by Natasha Morgan (c1980), A Room of One's Own by Eileen Atkins, Orlando (musical by Kit Hesketh-Harvey), Waves by Katie Mitchell and company at the National Theatre, 2007
Elizabeth WONG
Let the Big Dog Eat in Humana Festival '98: The Complete Plays Lyme, NH: Smith and Kraus, 1998
See also: interview in Greene
Olwen WYMARK
We Three (3f) and And After Nature, Art (2m,1f) in Rook
Wakako YAMAUCHI
Songs My Mother Taught Me; Stories, Plays and a Memoir, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994
See also: interview in Greene
Susan YANKOWITZ
Phaedra in Delirium (2f,1m id) in Svich ed.
'In Search of a Common Language', interview in Svich ed.
Sheila YEGER
Manuscripts in Theatre Museum, London
Note on Cast Sizes
1f, 1m +1 = 1female, 1 male, 1 either
1f, 1m +1m/f = 1female, 1 male, 1 either
3f,5+m = 3 female, 5male + other male bit parts, can be doubled
id= including doubling
dp = doubling possible
ANTHOLOGIES
Names of other playwrights, female and male, included in these volumes will soon be added. Where a new publication of a tranlsation is listed translators are the same as those listed in ...She Also Wrote Plays, unless specified otherwise.
Editors
Barr, Alan P. Modern Women Playwrights of Europe, NY: OUP, 2001
NB The plays /playwrights indexed above from Barr are all listed and/or discussed in ...She Also Wrote Plays. Barr has provided welcome new editions of works which are out-of-print elsewhere. He also includes welcome new translations or reprints of out-of-print ones by Gabriela Zapolska, Kalliroi Siganou-Parren, Suzanne Lilar, Eeva Liisa Manner, Ana Diosdado, Paloma Pedrero, Daniela Fisherova, Bjorg Vik, Kristina Lugn, Astrid Saalbach and Hrafhildur Hagalin Gudmundsdottir.
Bonney, Jo, Extreme Exposure: an Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century, TCG, 2000
Caines, Michael, Major Voices: 18th Century Women Playwrights, New Milford, CT: The Toby Press, 2004
Collection #5, Australia Script Centre, 2006
Elam Jr, Harry J. and R.A.Alexander The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the 21st Century NY: TCG, 2004
Gardner, Eric, Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery, New Milford, CT: The Toby Press, 2005 (also plays by Pauline Hopkins, Lydia Maria Child etc.)
Gilbert, Helen, Postcolonial Plays: an Anthology, Routledge 2001
Graham-Adriani, Suzy, New Connections ’99: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, 1999
Shell Connections, Faber and Faber 2004
International Connections: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, 2002
Miles, Julia, A Theatre for Women's Voices: Plays and History from the Women's Project at 25 Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003
Sealey, Jenny, Graeae Plays 1: New Plays Redefining Disability, Aurora Metro, 2002 (also contains plays by Maria Oshodi, Kaite O'Reilly, Mike Kenny, Ray Harrison Graham, Peter Wolf)
Singular (Female) Voices London, NHB, 2006
Smith, Marisa, Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of 1997, Smith & Kraus, 1997
Svich, Caridad and Maria Teresa Marrero, Out of the Fringe: Contemporary Latina/ Latino Theatre and Performance NY, TCG, 2000
Svich, Caridad, Divine Fire: Eight Contemporary Plays Inspired by the Greeks NY: Back Stage Books, 2005 (also includes plays by Svich, Ruth Margraff, Karen Hartman, Sarah Ruhl and 3 men)
Swortzell, Lowell, Around the World in 21 Plays: Theatre for Young Audiences NY: Applause, 1997
Rook, Robin, Plays Ten: 10 Short Plays London: Edward Arnold, 1977
BOOKS ON WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS AND WOMEN IN THEATRE
Bean, Annemarie, A Sourcebook of African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements, Routledge, 1999
Burkman, Katherine H and Judith Roof, Staging the Rage: the Web of Misogyny in Modern Drama London: Associated University Press, 1998
Burroughs, Catherine, Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, Society 1790-1840 Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000
Fensham, Rachel and Denise Varney, The Dolls' Revolution: Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing Inc., 2005 (also discusses playwrights Joanna Murray-Smith, Jane Harrison, Katherine Thomson, Leah Purcell and Beatrix Christian)
Gale, Maggie and Viv Gardner ed. Auto/biography and Identity: Women, Theatre and Performance Manchester: Manchester UP, 2004
(NB contents of the above also include the essay: "The way to the world: Emma Robinson and the dilemmas of identity" by Susan Croft about the 19th century playwright and novelist)
Griffin, Gabriele, Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003
Greene, Alexis ed. Women Who Write Plays: Interviews with American Dramatists, Smith & Kraus, 2001
Harrison, Paul Carter, Victor Leo Walker II, Gus Edwards ed.Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003
Holledge, Julie and Joanne Tompkins, Women's Intercultural Performance, Routledge, 2000
Larson, Catherine and Margarita Vargas ed. Latin American Women Dramatists: Theater, Texts and Theories Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000
Phelan, Rebecca, "In a Class of Their Own: Women in Theatre in Contemporary Ireland" in (Post) Colonial Stages ed. Helen Gilbert, Hebden Bridge: Dangaroo Press, 1999
Poggi, Valentina and Margaret Rose ed.A Theatre That Matters; Twentieth Century Scottish Drama and Theatre - a Collection of Critical Essays and Interviews Milan: Edizioni Unicopli, 2000
Rose, Margaret, Monologue Plays for Female Voices Milan: Edizioni Unicopli, 1995
Savran, David ed. The Playwright's Voice: American Dramatists on Memory, Editing and the Politics of Culture NY: TCG, 2006
Shellard, Dominic and Steve Nicholson with Hindley, The Lord Chamberlain Regrets... The British Library
Starck, Kathleen, 'I Believe in the Power of Theatre'; British Women's Drama of the 1980s and 1990s, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2005
Svich, Caridad ed., Trans-global readings: Crossing theatrical boundaries, Manchester UP, 2003
Watt, Stephen and Eileen Morgan and Shakir Mustafa ed., A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000