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Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 [1] – August 14, 1994) was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades."
Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975), by Ray Bradbury; Play It Again, Sam (1969), by Woody Allen; Plaza Suite (1968), by Neil Simon; The Pleasure of His Company (1958), by Samuel A. Taylor; The Poet & the Rent (1986), by David Mamet; POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (2022), by Selina Fillinger
Wilde's first West End drawing room play, Lady Windermere's Fan, ran at the St James's Theatre for 197 performances in 1892. [2] He briefly moved away from the genre to write his biblical tragedy Salome, after which he accepted a request from the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree for a new play for Tree's company at the Haymarket Theatre. [3]
The Vagina Monologues has been criticized by some within the feminist movement, including pro-sex feminists and individualist feminists. [19] Sex-positive feminist Betty Dodson, author of several books about female sexuality, saw the play as having a narrow and restrictive view of sexuality. Dodson's main concern seemed to be the lack of the ...
Sophie Anita Treadwell (October 3, 1885 – February 20, 1970) was an American playwright and journalist of the first half of the 20th century. She is best known for her play Machinal which is often included in drama anthologies as an example of an expressionist or modernist play.
Picture Palace, Women's Theatre Group, London, 1988. A Rock In Water, Royal Court Young People's Theatre at the Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1989. [16] Published in Black Plays: 2, ed. Yvonne Brewster, London: Methuen Drama, 1989. A Hero's Welcome, Women's Playhouse Trust at the Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1989.
According to the biography by her daughter Lucy Cary, Elizabeth Cary saw poetry as the highest literary form. Many of her poems have been lost, but her dedication to the form is clear in her plays. Her first or possibly second play, The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry (1613), [11] was written in iambic pentameter. Change in pattern ...
Orphans is a 2009 play by London playwright Dennis Kelly, an exploration of violence in urban areas. Kelly said “I always want my plays to have tension; whether the audience hates it or loves it is up to them, but I never want them to be bored.” [1]