Women Sharing the Spotlight: Plays Carried by Women

When fantastic female leads take to the stage together, theatre magic unfolds! As a companion piece to our Women Sharing the Spotlight: Musicals Carried by Women article, below are great non-musical plays in which two or more women lead the action. For plays and musicals featuring women only, check out Shows with All-Female Casts

An American Daughter by Wendy Wasserstein (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 8m)
In Wasserstein’s funny and provocative play, a nominee to the President’s cabinet faces a moral dilemma when the media discovers an indiscretion from her past. Meanwhile, at home, complicated relationships unravel with her father, her husband and her best girlfriend.

Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 4m)
Three generations of women – suicidal mother Carol, drug-addicted daughter Anna, and guarded granddaughter Bonnie – exist in three different temporal spaces as their stories are told simultaneously. This harrowing, original play asks whether trauma can be passed down through DNA. 

Angels of Bataan by Tracy Wells (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 8w, 4m, 4 any gender)
In 1941, two American sisters serve in the Philippines among more than 100 US Army nurses. When enemy bombers target their island, the nurses must navigate nursing through a war zone in Manila, a tropical jungle in Bataan, and as prisoners of war in an internment camp. Through it all, the women’s spirits remain high as they rely on their ingenuity, strength and camaraderie. Also available in a One-Act Version (US).

Becky Nurse of Salem by Sarah Ruhl (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 4w, 3m)
A descendant of a woman accused of being a witch in Salem is now having struggles of her own. She looks to a local witch to help right her wrongs, but it only makes things worse. Becky Nurse of Salem offers a look at how times have changed, or not, for women in America. 

Begets: Fall of a High School Ronin by Qui Nguyen (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 5w, 3m)
This story, set inside the halls of an all-American high school, tells the tale of Emi Edwards, a high school geek girl fighting to overthrow the cruel shoguns of her school. 

Bothered and Bewildered by Gail Young (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w, 3m)
This comedy-drama about one woman’s struggle with Alzheimer’s follows Irene and her daughters, Louise and Beth, as the girls lose their mum in spirit but not in body. 

Branwell (and the Other Brontës): An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë by Stephen Kaplan (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 1m)
As his sisters’ literary stars begin to rise, Branwell Brontë tells stories to cushion realities of their lives and keep loss from seeping into the real world. But when the magic of their stories begins to fail, the Brontës must fight to keep destruction and loss from seeping into the real world.

Calendar Girls by Tim Firth (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 9w, 4m)
When Annie’s husband dies of leukemia, she and her best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. Calendar Girls is based on the true story of 11 women who posed nude for a calendar and whose profits went to the Leukemia Research Fund. 

Cheshire Cats by Gail Young (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 7w, 3m)
Audiences follow the Cheshire Cats team as they speedwalk their way to fundraising success in the London Moonwalk. Cheshire Cats is a cross between a girl’s night out and a real mission to support a cause close to many hearts, with plenty of laughs and a few tears along the way. 

2022 Signature Theatre Company production of Confederates (Monique Carboni)

Confederates by Dominique Morisseau (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 1m)
Two Black American women – an enslaved rebel and a professor at a contemporary university – are having parallel experiences of institutional racism, though they live over a century apart. Tony-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau’s exacting new play explores the reins that racial and gender bias still hold over American educational systems today. 

Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 2m)
In Hazlehurst, Mississippi, the three Magrath sisters gather to await news of their ailing grandfather. Their troubles, grave yet somehow hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by an awkward young lawyer, who has clearly fallen in love with Babe. Honest, touching and consistently hilarious, Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play teems with humanity and humor.

Daisy Pulls It Off by Denise Deegan (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 18w, 2m)
Daisy Meredith, the new girl, is the first scholarship student to attend the Grangewood School for Girls. Daisy wins over her chums and saves the school when she cracks a secret code, finds a treasure and saves the life of her chief nemesis all in the same night!

Dance Nation by Clare Barron (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 9w, 2m)
Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. If their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at Nationals in Tampa Bay. 

Dream of a Common Language by Heather Ruth Mcdonald (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 2m, 1 boy)
This intriguing, intelligent play was inspired by an actual incident: women were banned from the artists’ dinner to plan the first Impressionist painting exhibit in 1874, even though works by women were to be shown. In the play, the dinner is at the home of Victor, a successful artist, and his wife, Clovis, an artist who no longer paints. After being excluded from the dining room, Clovis devises a “women-only” dinner to be held outdoors.

English by Sanaz Toossi (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 1m)
It’s 2008, and four Iranians assemble in a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) class in Karaj, Iran. When the class slowly devolves into a linguistic mess, some students cling tighter to their mother tongue while others embrace the possibilities of a new language. 

Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w, 3m)
At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to sanity by a thread making sure this party is perfect, but her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place. This Pulitzer Prize winner is a searing examination of family, drama, family drama and the insidiousness of white supremacy.

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball (US)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w, 1m)
During an ostentatious 1990s wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids escape to an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the reception.

Flyin’ West by Pearl Cleage (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 2m)
In Nicodemus, Kansas in 1898, facing problems ranging from the inevitability of long, cold winters and the possibility of domestic violence to the continuing specter of racial conflict, four Black women find their sisterhood tested in unexpected ways.

Foolish Fishgirls and The Pearl by Barbara Pease Weber (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w, 2m)
Two former deep sea divas, Coral and Oceana, didn’t exactly have the “happily ever after” storybook lives that the erstwhile mermaids envisioned. This feisty fairy tale explores life on dry land after true love is found, lost and found again. 

Four Old Broads by Leslie Kimbell (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 6w, 1m)
Magnolia Place Assisted Living is the home of retired burlesque queen Beatrice Shelton. Hilarity ensues as a collection of colorful residents, including Beatrice, try to solve a mystery and go on a planned cruise together. Also available for licensing: Four Old Broads on the High Seas (US/UK).

2013 Incubator Arts Project production of Geek! (Nick Francone)

Geek! by Crystal Skillman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 2m)
Teenage outcasts Dayna and Honey face pissed-off Pikachus, steampunk armies, stood-up Sailor Moons and rollerblading monsters at an Inferno-esque anime convention where the fans, the otakus and the geeks prowl. Also available for licensing: Geek! High School Edition (US/UK)

girl by Megan Mostyn-Brown (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 1m)
This play is about what it means to be a “girl” in this day and age. The girls exhibit great strength, revealing their vulnerabilities in language that is honest and extremely compelling. The play’s characters speak entirely in monologues.

Indecent by Paula Vogel (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 4m)
This deeply moving historic drama from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel is inspired by the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance – a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. Indecent charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it.

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding by Jocelyn Bioh (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 9w, 1m)
Jaja’s Harlem salon is full of funny, whip-smart, talented women ready to make you look and feel nice-nice. On this particularly muggy summer day, Jaja’s rule-following daughter Marie is running the shop while her mother prepares for her courthouse, green-card wedding – to a man no one seems to like. While Marie deals with the customers’ and stylists’ laugh-out-loud drama, news pierces the hearts of the women of the salon, galvanizing their connections and strengthening their community in the U.S.

Jane Austen’s Lady Susan by Rob Urbinati (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 3m)
Lady Susan, a young widow, flees London and arrives at the country home of her obliging brother-in-law and his suspicious wife. Lady Susan schemes for position and wealth, but all does not go according to plan as she and her daughter become rivals for the same man. 

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey by Matthew Francis (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 7w, 6m)
This dramatic adaptation of Jane Austen’s first novel wryly dramatizes the disparity between the heroine’s fantasy world of Gothic romance and mystery and the real world of England in the 1800s. It also captures Austen’s incomparable irony and acerbic comment in witty dialogue and narration. 

Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice by Andrew Davies (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 16w, 10m)
Adapted from Andrew Davies’ hit 1995 BBC TV series, this delightful comedy of manners revolves around the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the lively and mischievous daughter of a gentleman from the country, and Darcy, a wealthy and proud lord. 

Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility by Jen Taylor (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 8w, 6m)
The happy lives of the Dashwood sisters are dramatically changed in the wake of their father’s death. While misfortune challenges them, love alights: the very sensible Elinor falls for the equally cautious Edward Ferrars, while the flighty sensibilities of Marianne flutter ill-advisedly to the handsome, reckless neighbor John Willoughby.

Ken Ludwig’s Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Ken Ludwig (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 4m)
You know Holmes and Watson. You know Nick and Nora. Now, meet Peg and Molly, two brilliant detectives from Scotland Yard. A simple murder investigation leads Molly and Peg deep into the British WWII effort, launching a high-octane, laugh-out-loud race against time. Saving the world has never been so much fun.

Ladies in Retirement by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 1m)
A huge hit on Broadway and on the road, this classic 1940 thriller is a tight and compelling psychological melodrama. In 1885 Gravesend, retired actress Leonora Fiske suddenly disappears, leaving her companion Ellen to manage the household, along with her eccentric sisters. But Ellen’s cynical nephew Albert, hiding out after committing a robbery, quickly realizes that Ellen’s story doesn’t add up.

Laughs in Spanish by Alexis Scheer (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 1m)
Laughs in Spanish is set at Art Basel, the annual high-stakes art fair in Miami where Mariana runs a gallery. When her movie-star mother tries to help out, things get complicated. The play examines both the relationships between art and success and mothers and daughters. 

Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 2m)
Lettice Duffet is a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country home, infuriating the house’s stoic, conventional steward. Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust, is not impressed and fires Lettice. Not being one to go without a fight, Lettice challenges the inspector to a battle to the death of all that is sacred to the Empire and the crown.

Mary Gets Hers by Emma Horwitz (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w)
It’s the 10th century! A plague rages on in Germany! Everyone is turning into foam! When two overzealous hermits find an abandoned orphan named Mary, they scheme a saintly rescue mission to protect her purity at any and all costs. Mary, however, has other plans for herself, in this new play inspired by Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim’s closet drama-comedy Abraham, or the Rise and Repentance of Mary.

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon (US)
(Full-Length Play, Romantic Comedy / 5w, 3m)
A sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set two years after the novel ends, Miss Bennet continues the story, only this time with bookish middle-sister Mary as its unlikely heroine. Mary is growing tired of her role as dutiful middle sister in the face of her siblings’ romantic escapades. When the family gathers for Christmas at Pemberley, an unexpected guest sparks Mary’s hopes for independence, an intellectual match, and possibly even love. 

Mother Play by Paula Vogel (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 1m)
In 1962, just outside D.C., matriarch Phyllis is supervising her teenage children, Carl and Martha, as they move into a new apartment. This hilarious and heartbreaking semi-autobiographical portrait of a mother and her two children reveals—through five evictions—timeless truths of love, family and forgiveness. 

2024 Off-Broadway production of N/A (Daniel Rader)

N/A by Mario Correa (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w)
Inspired by real people and events, N/A is a whip-smart battle of wills – and wits – between N, the first woman Speaker of the House, and A, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. This riveting two-hander illuminates the person whom many consider the most powerful woman in American history…and the once-in-a-generation political talent who defied her.

Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Alexis Scheer (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 1m, 1 girl)
A gang of teenage girls gathers in an abandoned treehouse to summon the ghost of Pablo Escobar. Are they messing with the actual spirit of the infamous cartel kingpin? Or are they really just messing with each other? A rollercoaster ride through the danger and damage of girlhood – the teenage wasteland – has never been so much twisted fun. 

School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh (US)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 8w)
Paulina, the reigning queen bee at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school, has her sights set on the Miss Universe pageant. But the arrival of Ericka, a new student with undeniable talent and beauty, captures the attention of the pageant recruiter – and Paulina’s hive-minded friends. This buoyant and biting comedy explores the universal similarities (and glaring differences) facing teenage girls across the globe.

Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 9w, 6m)
This playful new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters – sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne – after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable. Set in gossipy late 18th-century England with a fresh female voice, the play is full of humor, emotional depth and bold theatricality.

Shakespeare’s Sister by Emma Whipday (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 7m, 1 girl, 1 boy)
Judith Shakespeare has one ambition: to be a playwright. When her debt-ridden father forces her into an engagement, she runs away with the help of dashing actor Ned Alleyn, hoping to join her brother in London. When she arrives, life takes a turn for the worst when her brother is gone, Ned engaged to another and her play refused. 

She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 6w, 3m)
A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games! In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres and ’90s pop culture, Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all. 

Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 4m)
Art imitates Life. Life imitates Art. When two actors with a history are thrown together as romantic leads in a forgotten 1930s melodrama, they quickly lose touch with reality as the story onstage follows them offstage. 

Stop Kiss by Diana Son (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 3m)
After Callie meets Sara, the two unexpectedly fall in love. Their first kiss provokes a violent attack that transforms their lives in a way they could never anticipate. An angry bystander attacks Sara in a hate-crime, after which she falls into a coma. Callie and Sara’s heartfelt story develops out of chronological order, intermixing events before and after this horrific act.

The Apiary by Kate Douglas (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 1 any gender)
An unsettling and sharp-witted cautionary tale, this eco-thriller shows the key to protecting each other and the planet is right in front of us. In the future, honeybees are nearly extinct except for those kept alive inside of labs. When an unfortunate incident leads to a boost in number of bees, the workers must decide just how far they’re willing to go to keep the population growing. 

The Chicken-Fried-Fabulous Spa-Dee-Dah Sisterhood by Jones Hope Wooten (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 6w, 2m)
The Hallelujah Girls are back! In this rollicking crowd-pleaser, the fierce females of Eden Falls face off with rivals, an ex-mother-in-law and a soon-to-be-ex-husband as they chase a new dream: franchising their day spa, Spa-Dee-Dah, across the state of Georgia.

2011 West End production of The Children’s Hour (Tristram Kenton)

The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 12w, 2m)
One of the great successes of distinguished writer Lillian Hellman’s career, this serious play concerns a malicious student who falsely accuses the two headmistresses of her 1930s New England boarding school of having a lesbian affair, destroying the women’s careers, relationships and lives.

The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged by Jessica Bedford, Kathryn MacMillan, Charlotte Northeast and Meghan Winch (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 1m)
In a fast-paced romp, three actors take on all of Jane Austen’s beloved heroines, friends and love interests – and her incisive social satire – in just 80 minutes. But when they lose a cast member, the two remaining “Janeites” must teach an understudy about her work.

The Gap Year by Clare McMahon (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 3m)
Newly widowed Kate, along with two friends, have decided to take a gap year. Realizing that life is too short, they chart out to visit every county in Ireland. It’s time for castles, coffee and craic as three women in their 60s go on the adventure of a lifetime. 

The Gut Girls by Sarah Daniels (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 6w, 2m)
Set in the “gutting” sheds at a cattle market in late Victorian England, this incisive drama shows working women at the bottom of the heap. When socially conscious “do-gooders” seek to make their unseemly work illegal, the “gut girls” are forced to seek other options.

The Moors by Jen Silverman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 5w, 1m)
Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. 

The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w)
As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in The Life.

The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon (US)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 3m)
In a delightful companion play to Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (US), the household staff at Pemberley gathers downstairs during a holiday celebration. This yuletide sequel to Pride and Prejudice is a charming tale exploring the confines of class and the generosity of forgiveness.

The Wild Bunch Women: A Memory Play by Nelly E. Cuellar-Garcia (US/UK)
(Short Play, Drama / 15w, 2m + ensemble)
The Wild Bunch Women were known throughout the Old West as cattle rustlers, stagecoach bandits and bank robbers… but to Pearl Hart, they were family. Joy, sorrow and the spirit of the old West fill this poignant play.

The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 2m)
Seven years after the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 terrorist bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, a mother from New Jersey comes to Scotland hoping to find some of her son’s remains. She meets the women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the U.S. government to obtain the clothing of the victims – they plan to convert an act of hatred into an act of love, by washing the clothes of the dead and returning them to the victim’s families.

2025 WP Theater, The Sol Project, Long Wharf Theatre and Latinx Playwrights Circle co-production of Torera (Joan Marcus)

Torera by Monet Hurst-Mendoza (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 2m, 2 any gender)
Bullfighting in Yucatan, Mexico is a world nearly exclusive to men – yet for Elena Maria Ramirez, it is her life’s ambition. With the help of her best friend, a matador’s son, Elena begins secretly training to compete with the greatest. 

Tracy Jones by Stephen Kaplan (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 1m)
Tracy Jones has rented out the back “party room” of Jones Street Bar and Grill – she’s throwing a party to which she’s invited every woman in the U.S. who is also named Tracy Jones. Tracy Jones has been sitting for over an hour alone, nursing her Diet Coke, waiting for any other Tracy Joneses to show up. Tracy Jones’s epic loneliness is about to be tested beyond anything she ever imagined.

Usual Girls by Ming Peiffer (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 7w, 2m)
Kyeoung has spent her entire life negotiating the double standards imposed on her as an Asian American woman. Bullied by boys in childhood, ostracized by girls as a teen, and gas-lit by men as an adult, her experiences with sexuality grow more and more challenging. As it traces Kyeoung from the insecurity of puberty to the disenchantment of her adult life, Usual Girls chronicles the wonder, pain and complexity of growing up female.

Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial by Liv Hennessy (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 3m)
Edited from seven sensational days of High Court transcripts, witness as the case of Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney unfolds in their own words. A story stranger than fiction that blurs the boundaries of tabloid scoop, court case and soap opera, this trial explores privacy and celebrity in modern Britain while asking: who’s Davy Jones, and where exactly is his locker?

White Pearl by Anchuli Felicia King (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 5w, 1m)
In Singapore, Clearday™ has developed from a small startup into a leading international cosmetic brand in less than a year. But when a draft of the company’s latest skin cream ad is leaked, the video goes viral for all the wrong reasons, launching an international PR nightmare. The company cannot be seen to be racist – they’ve got to get it taken down before America wakes up. 

Women and War by Jack Hilton Cunningham (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 1m)
Women and War is a collection of fictional stories based on historical fact, told by generations of Americans impacted by conflict from The Great War to the War in Afghanistan. These are tales of sacrifice, love, determination and hope told by those who bravely persevere on the home front and on the battlefield. Also available for licensing: Women and War: One-Act Edition (US/UK)

Women Laughing Alone with Salad by Sheila Callaghan (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 3w, 1m)
Women Laughing Alone with Salad is inspired by the strangely ubiquitous advertising trend of picturing attractive women blissfully eating salad. This raw comedy is served with a side of feminism and tossed with audacious imagery, biting social critique and devastating humor. With this play, author Sheila Callaghan breaks all the rules of our image-obsessed culture. 

Women Playing Hamlet by William Missouri Downs (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w + ensemble)
Hamlet’s a challenge for any actor, but when Jessica is cast as the titular character in a New York production, it sends her into an existential tailspin. Featuring an all-female cast performing multiple roles, this contemporary comedy is rip-roaring fun for Shakespeare fans and haters alike.

You on the Moors Now by Jaclyn Backhaus (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 7w, 7m)
Four literary heroines of the 19th century set conventionalism ablaze when they turn down marriage proposals from their equally famous gentlemen callers. What results is a confluence of love, anger, grief and bloodshed, as the ensemble struggles to reconcile romantic ideologies of the past with their modern ideas of courtship. Everything you’ve learned about love from the pages of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Little Women is turned upside down in this grand theatrical battle royale. 

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