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Albertine in Five Times

A simultaneous portrait of a woman at five different ages. Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine.

    The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

    The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.

    Published in volume Singular Female Voices

      Duologue

      Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.

      Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and Duologue

        Who is Sylvia?

        Rattigan's play about obsessive love, a bittersweet portayal of his father - and maybe of his own frustrated love life.

        Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and Duologue

          Saturday at the Commodore

          A short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.

          Published in volume Scot-Free

            Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (original Traverse Theatre version)

            A contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.

            Published in volume Scot-Free

              The Steamie

              A celebration of women's work in a Glasgow wash-house set on Hogmanay.

              Published in volume Scot-Free

                The Guid Sisters

                Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

                  trade

                  A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.

                  Published in volume trade & generations: two plays

                    Making Noise Quietly (short play)

                    The third in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, also called Making Noise Quietly.

                      What Love Is

                      A short play about caring for your parents.

                      Published in volume Sex & God

                        Mothers Against

                        A gripping account of a bitterly fought US governor's election from the Republican perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.

                        Published in volume Continental Divide: two plays

                          Daughters of the Revolution

                          A political thriller set in the midst of a bitterly fought US governor's election, from the Democrat perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.

                          Published in volume Continental Divide: two plays

                            All God's Chillun Got Wings

                            An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.

                              Enter A Gentleman

                              A 15-minute play based on Restoration playwright Aphra Behn's tempestuous love affair with John Hoyle.

                              Published in volume Fishskin Trousers

                                Fabulation

                                In Fabulation, playwright Lynn Nottage reimagines Esther (the character from her companion play, Intimate Apparel) as Undine, the public relations diva of today, who spirals downward from her swanky Manhattan office to her roots back in Brooklyn.

                                  The Middlemarch Trilogy: Dorothea's Story

                                  Part of The Middlemarch Trilogy, adapted from George Eliot's novel by Geoffrey Beevers. Three interconnected plays, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

                                  Published in volume The Middlemarch Trilogy

                                    The Middlemarch Trilogy: Fred and Mary's Story

                                    Part of The Middlemarch Trilogy, adapted from George Eliot's novel by Geoffrey Beevers. Three interconnected plays, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

                                    Published in volume The Middlemarch Trilogy