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  • 1.  Great Plays for Women’s History Month - for high school actors

    Posted 12-28-2022 11:18
    Great Plays for Women's History Month 
         for high school actors (African American, 
          Latino, Asian, and white)

    What are your top 5 titles that celebrate women: women's rights; women activists; women's history; women's cultural/social/intellectual accomplishments and contributions; our amazing journey?


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  • 2.  RE: Great Plays for Women's History Month - for high school actors

    Posted 12-29-2022 14:24

    I can suggest 8 plays I've written that would fit a Women's History Month theme: 

    • Mothers and Daughters of Invention: 4,000 Years of Women in Science
    • The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Mary "Mother" Jones 
    • Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
    • Sacajawea, Bird Woman of the Shoshones
    • First Mothers: The Women Who Raised America's Presidents
    • Dorothy Day, Prophet of Pacifism
    • Around the World with Nellie Bly
    • Lady of the Lamp: Florence Nightingale, Founder of Modern Nursing  

    Let me know if you'd like to see the scripts.

    L.E. McCullough / Pittsburgh, PA
    lemccullough@mac.com
    www.educationalclassroomplays.com



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    L.E. McCullough
    Pittsburgh PA
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  • 3.  RE: Great Plays for Women's History Month - for high school actors

    Posted 12-29-2022 14:45
    This is a great question. I love plays about woman. I am always drawn to telling the stories of woman and particularly through the social-historical lens.

    1. Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson
    2. Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale
    3. Sarafina! by Mbongeni Ngema  [I do not know why it has never been published for high school/amateur productions :(  ] 
    4. Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory
    5. The Good Fight (That Pankhurst Woman-One Act) by Anne Bertram

    Bonus title: Night Witches by Rachel Bublitz

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    John Rutherford
    Groves Performing Arts Company
    W.E. Groves High School
    Beverly Hills MI
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  • 4.  RE: Great Plays for Women's History Month - for high school actors

    Posted 12-31-2022 05:53
    In addition to Deborah Brevoort's Women of Lockerbie and the already mentioned Radium Girls by D. W. Gregory, I can suggest a couple of my own plays that have been widely produced. All can and should be performed by diverse casts.
    Letters to Sala, 10-20F, 2-5M (deepening on doubling), a true Holocaust story. Open staging. 90min (Dramatists Play Service)
    As It Is In Heaven    , 9-12 F, about a Shaker community in Kentucky in 1838. Open staged drama with a cappella Shaker hymns, 90min (Dramatists Play Service)
    The Shakers of Mount Lebanon Will Hold a Peace Conference This Month, 8-11F, 4-5M, a Shaker community in NY in 1905, open staging, optional Shaker hymns (scheduled for publication by DPS, manuscript available through me)

    As a Happy New Year to the EdTA community I'm happy to email members pdfs of any of these plays for your consideration, including an updated version of the full-length Letters to Sala and a 50- minute shorter version. arlene[at]barrowgroup.org

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    Arlene Hutton, playwright
    Letters to Sala
    I Dream Before I Take the Stand
    Kissed the Girls & Made Them Cry
    As It Is In Heaven
    Susie Sits Shiva (EdTA commission)

    faculty, The Barrow Group, NYC
    arlene@barrowgroup.org
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  • 5.  RE: Great Plays for Women's History Month - for high school actors

    Posted 01-01-2023 08:31
    playing for time by Arthur Miller is an amazing play. We did it several years ago.  you do need girls who play string instruments.  
    The play about the shirt factory fire is a good one also... not sure if the name.  The Miracle Worker.
    Those are my top thoughts
    cathy


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    Cathy Archer
    EdTA Member or Troupe Director
    Rutland High School
    VT
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  • 6.  RE: Great Plays for Women's History Month - for high school actors

    Posted 01-04-2023 08:14
    Oh wow, I didn't know "Playing for Time" was available as a stage play. I did the TV film with Vanessa Redgrave years ago and still get the shakes just seeing  the title.

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    Elaine Bromka
    N.Y. actress/guest artist
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  • 7.  RE: Great Plays for Women's History Month - for high school actors

    Posted 01-05-2023 20:11
    It has been available for some time. We did it inwarings... early 2000,s . We did it I'm the round. I loved working on this piece and involving our history department.  It is a difficult piece and you have to create a family that looks out for each other. I had one student pulled because he parents felt it was too intense for her. I got called on the carpet for inviting an outsider to speak to my students about the Holocaust..... they did not bother to talk to me before giving me a lot of  warnings..... the visitor was one of our history teaches!!!! Annnd.... due the the admins. concern for the students the entire cast and crew got called down to the principals office without me to be sure they were ok and I wasn't making them do s show they were uncomfortable with.... funny thing was this was a piece they chose and were passionate about!!!!  You can not make this stuff up!! Sometimes teaching in a high school is more like fiction than fiction!!!!!
    It is a truly wonderful show 



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  • 8.  RE: Great Plays for Women's History Month - for high school actors

    Posted 01-02-2023 10:57
    I would also suggest Women and War by Jack Hilton Cunningham. Concord carries it. It's written as Reader's theatre but can be fully staged. It has both a full and one act version. It covers women and their involvement from WWI to present. One of my favorites!!

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    Carolyn Greer
    Owensboro High School
    KY
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  • 9.  RE: Great Plays for Women's History Month - for high school actors

    Posted 01-02-2023 21:53
    The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson

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    Stefanie Plumley
    Performing Arts Chair
    CA
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  • 10.  RE: Great Plays for Women's History Month - for high school actors

    Posted 01-03-2023 13:37
    Night Witches - Dramatic publishing has it . I saw the one act versionh last year. It is very powerful and is a piece of women's history I did not know about.
    There is a full length version and a one act.
    Cathy



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