The Road to Huntsville E-Book

Stephanie Ridings

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

The Road to Huntsville by Stephanie Ridings is a short play for a solo performer about a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row, who then finds herself crossing the line. It was first performed at Hampstead Theatre, London, in November 2016, as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival produced by Sphinx Theatre, demonstrating the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage. The play is also available in Women Centre Stage, a collection of eight short plays selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre. All the plays included in this volume offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. Other writers included in the collection include Winsome Pinnock, Timberlake Wertenbaker and April De Angelis.

Leseprobe

Stephanie Ridings

THE ROAD TOHUNTSVILLE

Taken from the collection

WOMEN CENTRE STAGE

Eight Short Plays By and About Women

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Original Production Details

The Road to Huntsville

The Sphinx Test

Biography

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

For My Comrades-in-ArmsDame Rosemary Squire DBE and Jules Wright

And for Louisa, Tiffany, Helen, Ros,Isabel, Lisa, Ben and Joanna.

IntroductionSue Parrish

‘Women can’t be artists, women are mothers’Sian Ede, Arts Council officer, 1991

The eight plays in this volume first saw the light of day in the Women Centre Stage Festival. They were chosen to show the range, depth and richness of the work that can be created in a celebration of women artists. The Women Centre Stage Festival is an exciting cultural project designed to address and combat women’s exclusion from UK theatre. Sphinx Theatre, founded as the Women’s Theatre Group in 1973 and renamed in 1990, has been in the vanguard of advocating and inspiring women in the arts through productions, conferences and research for four decades. As a kind of feminist-theatre think tank, we initiated the breakthrough Glass Ceiling conferences in the 1990s at the National Theatre, and more recently from 2009, four Vamps, Vixens and Feminists conferences; while landmark productions include Pam Gems’ and April De Angelis’ modern classic, .

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Lesen Sie weiter in der vollst?ndigen Ausgabe!

Lesen Sie weiter in der vollst?ndigen Ausgabe!

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