Gage Play Anthologies

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Gage's tenth anthology of plays. Written between 2020 and 2026, these plays span a half-decade of unprecedented national crises.  These are plays with both epic sweep and excruciating focus... Gage at the height of her powers. 
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Big Plays
In McClintock's Corn, Stigmata, The Spindle

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"Huge casts, gigantic themes, multiple subplots, more scenes than a Shakespeare play, two intermissions, epic sweeps of history, breathtaking relevance with heart-stopping suspense and momentum…  in other words, what would have been known in previous eras as 'plays.' By one of the world’s most prolific and feminist playwrights."--from back cover

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The Island Collection
New Plays by Carolyn Gage

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"I’ve been a “theatre person” for 26 years, and I have never enjoyed reading plays… until The Island Collection. This is a collection that I could not stop reading. Reading each work is a complete experience: visual, auditory, and emotional. I am still mulling over moments from the first one I read, days later. One simply does not see this caliber of female characters represented on stage or in commonly-studied scripts. Full of vulnerability, intelligence in all its forms, and indomitable strength, the women inhabiting these plays will walk away with your soul... A warning, though: do not pick up The Island Collection unless you are ready for your heart to be torn from your chest, poked, prodded, examined, then lovingly massaged and replaced, a whole new organ..."—Emily Stamets, coach for Women+ In Theatre and leader in the arts.

"Carolyn Gage is the dramatist laureate of unsung lesbian lives. She finds women lost to history and brings them to vivid life onstage with rare empathy, insight, wit, and imagination. Hers is a voice that mainstream theater does not yet know it is missing. That voice can be heard here, however, on every page."—John Stoltenberg, senior reviewer and columnist, DC Metro Theater Arts.

“Most of the plays in The Island Collection imagine key moments in the lives of remarkable women largely forgotten by history. Gage's project is equal parts excavation and imagination. Her dramatizations of lesbian love stories are themselves love letters to the courageous and complicated women who inspire Gage.” –Meghan Brodie, Assistant Professor of Theater, Ursinus College

"Carolyn Gage has been creating plays about and for lesbians for decades. Her work is proficient, moving, and provocative. This collection includes plays about some historical women who had distinguished theatrical careers. But my favorite play is Easter Sunday, a moving story about a working class butch and femme lesbian couple around 1960. It showcases classism."–Carol Anne Douglas, a member of the  collective of Off Our Backs: Feminist Newsjournal from 1973 to 2008, author, editor, and activist.

Permeating the plays in The Island Collection is a sense of wonder towards the world — its laws and powers... Audiences are given a delicious invitation to ponder whether art can really come to life and whether living people have ghosts...It would be tragic if The Island Collection were embraced only by LGBT theaters and Women’s Studies departments. Although the collection includes tantalizingly complex roles for women—for women of color—for older women—it is really a collection for all artists, all theaters, all people.--Susan Chase, playwright and theater critic for The Morning Call, Allentown, PA.

"Each voice collected by Gage rings with vulnerability, honor, pain, and pride, always avoiding both the museum-relic blandness or the melodramatic exaggeration that is so often found in historical pieces. Gage has captured these engaging living portraits of dramatic and engaging individuals, and brought them to life in all their true, complicated, wonderful, messy humanity...Gage’s new collection is both a laudable effort to preserve these women’s disappearing stories and a deep indictment of a society that has forced such an effort to be necessary. The Island Collection represents the most engaging of source materials as curated and sculpted by the most talented of hands. The collection stands among the best of Gage’s work and is a vital addition to both Women’s Studies and American Dramatic Literature."--John Michael Sefel, Distinguished Fellow, Ohio State University.

A new collection of Gage's plays, including:
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Winner, Lambda Literary Award

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Three Comedies

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The Triple Goddess
Three Plays

The Very Short Plays