Plays by Women, Vol. 1

by Caryl Churchill and Pam Gems

Book Overview

Four female British plays deal with a poet and her mother, a family's breakdown in communication, a woman who literally wrestles with her problems and the interaction of a group of office workers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413500209
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Methuen Publishing
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 0.4" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Diverse Women's Plays

This is the third volume in Methuen's series of anthologies by women, offering an indication of the wide range of style and subject matter tackled by women playwrights. Included are Aunt Mary, by Pam Gems, a surreal and sometimes satirical play about assorted artists and their unconventional lifestyles, Debbie Horsfield's Red Devils, a gritty, fast-moving play about four teenage football fans - girls from Manchester, Sharon Pollucks's Blood Relations, a theatrically exciting re-telling of the terrible tale of Lizzie Borden and Time Pieces, by Lou Wakefield and the Women's Theatre Group, a revue-stlye panorama of the lives of three generations of women in the same family, their similarities and differences. Each play has an afterword by the author and the volume opens with an introduction by the series editor, Michelle Wandor. -- from book's back cover