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Nine
Short Plays
The
Second Coming of Joan of Arc, A one woman-lesbian play In The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Joan returns to
share her story with contemporary women. She tells her experiences
with the highest levels of church, state, and military, and unmasks
the brutal misogyny behind male institutions.
The
Second Coming of Joan of Arc was nominated as a national finalist
for the Lambda Literary Award in Drama. The title work was
featured on National Public Radio, and was given first-class
production in Brazil, where it was the hit of the season in Rio
and Sao Paolo. The collection includes seven one-act plays, which
show us the real women behind the sterile patriarchal stereotypes:
the angry teenage lesbian Joan of Ar, the alcoholic butch Calamity
Jane, the Louisa May Alcott with repressed incest memories, the
political prisoner known as "Typhoid Mary," and the
lesbian Jane Addams. "This is great theatre . . . daring,
heartbreaking, principled, bitter, and often very funny . . .
Women’s mental health would improve instantly, were they able to
see these plays performed." --- Phyllis Chesler...
Finally! A book for lesbians who are tired of "passing"
at auditions and in acting classes and
workshops! Here at last, from one of the most talented and inventive contemporary playwrights,
is a book of twenty-five monologues and forty-five scenes by, for, and about lesbians. Here are
dramatic portrayals of our coming-out stories, our strategies of resistance, our rescue of survivors
of sexual abuse, our passions, our torture, our triumphs. The settings are
historic and contemporary, ranging from the goddess temples of
Lesbos to the locker rooms of a softball team
Like There's No Tomorrow: Meditations for Women Leaving
Patriarchy "I was more deeply moved and 'sinspired' by Carolyn Gage's new book than by
anything else I've read in years. Like There's No Tomorrow has qualities rarely seen in
current "theory." It is a work of burning, uncompromising vision and daring... a beacon of hope
in
these chilling times of compromise, timidity and apparent defeat. This book is Pure Fire. It is
true
and therefore extreme... a stunning manifestation of Radical Lesbian Feminist Courage and
Genius."...
"Take
Stage!" How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play "In Take Stage!, Carolyn Gage has given us an invaluable
resource for producing lesbian theatre in our communities -
brilliant in attention to the details of theatrical production,
uncompromising in its treatment of the human and economic factors
involved, firmly grounded in her experiences as a playwright,
director, and producer, and throughout informed by a solid,
lesbian-centered politic that prioritizes class, race, and
accessibility in specific, practical ways...
