Plays for Today By Women [Paperback]

A wide ranging collection of plays by women dealing with contemporary subjects such as child abuse, recession, war, poverty and the complexity of modern women’s lives. The plays in this collection feature many roles for women and girls, are suitable for study, for performance, or as part of Women's Studies or Feminist Theatre Studies courses, and have all been prodcued and performed in the United Kingdom to acclaim.

This anthology includes:

FOR A BUTTONby Rachel Barnett – a comic two hander about two friends and the lengths one will go to, to remain ‘best’ friends.

YOURS ABUNDANTLY, FROM ZIMBABWEby Gillian Plowman – a middle-aged woman decides to leave her comfy life in the UK and work in a school in Zimbabwe.

WELCOME TO RAMALLAHby Sonja Linden and Adah Kay – two Jewish sisters are forced to confront the reality of what their forefathers have done to the Palestinians.

FROM THE MOUTHS OF MOTHERSby Amanda Stuart Fisher - a verbatim drama detailing the distressing stories of mothers who learned that their child has been sexually abused.

THE AWKWARD SQUADby Karen Young – a three generational comic drama involving Northern women who are trying to live and work in recessionary Britain.

SWEET CIDERby Emteaz Hussain - In a rundown park, two teenage runaways Tazeem and Nosheen hang out, chatting to the boys and an old bag lady, trying to reconcile being British with their Pakistani cultural traditions.

An anthology of six new and award-winning plays by female playwrights.

Cheryl Robson is an award-winning playwright and publisher who founded Aurora Metro Books over 20 years ago to develop and publish new writers in drama and fiction. She also established The Virginia Prize for Fiction in 2009 to promote emerging women novelists. Previously, she worked for the BBC, ran a theatre company and taught in higher education.l³w