Reviews
"This superbly informative guide ... Croft certainly knows exactly how to present maximum information with minimum fuss. For each author she indicates plays in print, size of casts, a pointed critical bibliography. ... Equally impressive are the brief biographical sketches, homing in on illuminating detail, and Croft's confident but generous judgements. Directors and scholars, teachers and readers will all benefit from Croft's work. The National Theatre could happily programme nothing but plays and writers from this book ... "
PICK OF THE MONTH, May-June 2001, Plays International
‘a must have for anyone looking for new plays to perform or read' Direct – journal of the Directors' Guild
‘Croft's book stands as a highly useable and welcome resource to be taken up by those merely curious or deeply committed to the long and increasingly full legacy of feminist theatre' Theatre Journal
‘a terrific job…. much thumbed in SE1' Jack Bradley, Literary Manager, National Theatre of Great Britain
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...She Also Wrote Plays:
an International Guide to Women Playwrights from the 10th to the 21st Century
It was published by in the UK by Faber and Faber in April 2001 and in the US by Faber Inc. (a division of Farrer, Strauss and Giroux) in October, 2001
Giving you updates on new work and other information about playwrights in the Guide
Playwrights included in the Guide
A complete list of those included
Enabling you to find plays within the Guide on a given theme
If you find the index useful e.g if you or your students use a cluster of playwrights on a given theme as basis for an article or paper, I'd be interested to know - please email me!
The Darker Face of Earth by Rita Dove
Photo: Graham Brandon
‘should provoke a serious reassessment of the contribution women playwrights have made over the centuries' Writing in Education
'…She Also Wrote Plays is an extraordinarily inspiring weave of present and past, the unknown and the too easily forgotten achievements of women writers worldwide… it feels something like the creation of an inclusive, international tradition with a diversity of voices, visions and practices that is truly staggering…' April De Angelis, playwright
‘a wonderful landscape of playwrights' Timberlake Wertenbaker, playwright
‘exemplary…Pick it up and you know where to go if you want to include women writers in your production schedule, your teaching or your general research programme' Performance Research