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These Shining Lives is a play written by Melanie Marnich. [1] It is based on the true story of four women who worked for the Radium Dial Company - a watch factory based in Ottawa, Illinois. The play showcases the danger women faced in this workplace and highlights the wider lack of concern companies had for protecting the health of their employees.
2.5 Minute Ride in Talk to Me: Monologue Plays New York : Vintage Books 2004 ISBN 978-1-4000-7615-4; Voyage to Lesbos in Five Lesbian Brothers Four Plays New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2000 ISBN 1-55936-166-2; Well in The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2003-2004 New York : Limelight Editions, c2005. ISBN 978-0-87910-315-6
The 90-minute play is a monologue told from the perspective of an unnamed woman who tells of meeting the man of her dreams, marrying and having children. [2] [3] Her first humorous recollection is of them meeting in an EasyJet queue preparing to board a plane to Italy. [3]
The subject matter of the monologues includes women's relationships and wardrobes and at times the interaction of the two, using the female wardrobe as a time capsule of a woman's life. The show was initially presented as a part of the 2008 summer series at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York , and then as a benefit series at the DR2 Theatre ...
Between 2014 and 2022, Eclair wrote seven series (36 episodes) of Little Lifetimes, [23] short monologues for female actors, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. As well as Eclair herself, actors including Dame Harriet Walter , Haydn Gwynne , Monica Dolan , Vicki Pepperdine , Imelda Staunton , Anita Dobson and Ruth Sheen have been the monologist .
The play was later presented by The Barrow Group, at the John Houseman Studio Theater, running from May 30, 1997, officially on June 6, and ending June 29, 1997. [3] The play was produced in Santa Ana, California, in a Way Off Broadway production in February and March 1990. [4] The play ran in San Francisco at the Next Stage in January 1999. [5]
The Women is a 1936 American play, a comedy of manners by Clare Boothe Luce.Only women compose the cast. The original Broadway production, directed by Robert B. Sinclair, opened on December 26, 1936, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it ran for 657 performances with an all-female cast that included Margalo Gillmore, Ilka Chase, Betty Lawford, Jessie Busley, Phyllis Povah, Marjorie Main ...
Six monologues made famous by the diva Caroline O'Connor, exposing six women balancing their inner and outer lives with humour and often desperate cunning.They range in age from a feisty teenager to a 64-year-old widow yearning for the unexpected.