Plays » Women Authors

Touching Lightly on Love and Death    by Kathleen Thompson
Price: $4.99 USD. 23200 words. Language: English. Published on July 13, 2012. Plays » Women Authors.

Well-known Chicago playwright Kathleen Thompson writes with intelligence,sensitivity and often wild humor about our deepest feelings. These three short plays explore how people in intimate situations--romance, family, friendship and danger--bring each other through . . . or try.
The Glass Family    by Leonore H. Dvorkin
Price: $1.99 USD. 4450 words. Language: English. Published on July 6, 2012. Plays » American / African American.

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A play in one act, in which the transparent characters – Glenn, Glenda, Gladwin, and Glennis Glass – offer their opinions on such weighty philosophical matters as being half full or half empty, accepting oneself as one comes from the Great Factory, the restricted lives of their costlier neighbors in the locked china cabinet, the fate of an unfortunate cousin with a glass jaw, and much more.
Radio Plays    by Karen Sunde
Price: Free! 25700 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Plays » American / African American.

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3 Radio Plays 3 Voodoo to Paradise: tropical night, mysterious wooden boat-load casting off for better future. The Sound of Sand: Blind boy’s mighty dangerous venture from sand-castle beach onto the sea. How His Bride Came To Abraham: Enemies trapped in no-man’s land make it paradise. An NPR, WNYC broadcast; a Bob Hope Award winner; a radio-adaptation of oft-produced, twice-published peace play.
The Abortion Monologues    by Jane Cawthorne
Price: $2.99 USD. 16330 words. Language: English. Published on March 26, 2012. Plays » Canadian.

In these dramatic monologues, twenty-three women reveal the details of their lives, relationships and families as they tell the stories of their abortions. Sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but always thought provoking, The Abortion Monologues exist in stark contrast to the real world in which women seldom publicly discuss this choice.
Kabuki-West    by Karen Sunde
Price: Free! 24970 words. Language: English. Published on February 15, 2012. Plays » Women Authors.

Kabuki plays “dazzling” “haiku-like” Chicago Sun-Times “best of two worlds, fascinating” Oakland Tribune “resounds with Kabuki’s passion, fascination...in Sunde's adaptation, Zen philosophy is engrained into story, not imposed” L.A.Daily News “Essence of passion. Sunde's play compresses Homeric epic, is lucid and direct, makes you see and hear with awakened eyes and ears." Philadelphia Inquirer
Even More Plays From Behind the Zion Curtain    by Plan-B Theatre Company
Price: $5.00 USD. 49620 words. Language: English. Published on February 1, 2012. Plays » Women Authors.

The latest anthology of original, full-length plays premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, Utah.