Female-Heavy Play?

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Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/4/08 at 8:27pm

Hi.

My school is looking for a mainstage show for next year; we have around 9-ish girls and three boys.

Past shows we've done are Top Girls, A Bright Room Called Day, Anton in Show Business...

We've been looking at "Blood Wedding" by Lorca.

Any suggestions?

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/4/08 at 8:31pm

straight plays or musicals?

"I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!"-Funny Girl

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/4/08 at 8:33pm

Straight plays.

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/4/08 at 8:37pm

Let's see what the Methuen Drama catalogue has to offer...

Well, it offers a piece called 'No-Boys Cricket Club' by Roy Williams, m3 f10. But other than that, there's a few where gender combinations don't seem to matter, such as '14 Songs, 2 Weddings, and a Funeral' (m/f10), 'Death and the King's Horseman' (m/f12), 'Whale' (m/f12), 'Strictly Dandia' (m/f14), or 'Three Sisters' (m/f14). Sadly the catalogue doesn't offer synopses, but hopefully the titles are something to go on.

Notes from the Earlham Street Gutter

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/4/08 at 8:46pm

theres always "The Children's Hour"
Which i only uggest if you have a really creative director, or else the secon d act drags for about a century, its ~12f/2m

Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone and ta'en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. ~Cymbeline

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/5/08 at 7:06am

Bumpity bump bump.

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/10/08 at 5:50am

If you're gonna do Lorca go with Bernarda Alba, one hell of a show.

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/10/08 at 10:20am

5 Women Wearing the Same Dress

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:02pm

Female version of "The Odd Couple"

#10

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/11/08 at 8:05pm

Stage Door.
Women Behind Bars.

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

#11

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/12/08 at 9:25am

Thanks for the suggestions!

Any others?

#12

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/13/08 at 12:29am

The Hot L Baltimore has 8 female roles I believe.

#13

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/21/08 at 10:37pm

you could try singing and do Annie.....just a thought. (although you might kill yourself listening to "tomorrow" a thousand times so...)

#14

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/25/08 at 6:26pm

anton in show business

collected stories (just 2 women)

vanities

steel magnolias

crimes of the heart

there are many books that are just collections of all-female plays. Betcha got some in yer local library.

#15

re: Female-Heavy Play?

Posted: 4/26/08 at 10:54am

The House of Bernarda Alba, by Frederico Garcia Lorca.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

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