New Plays for a Women's College?

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 12:00pm

Sorry for trying this again...

Please help if you can!

For next Spring, my Women's College wants to put on a play that has been published since 2000. We're looking for an interesting play with a cast of at least four women. There can be male roles, but the fewer the better (they're hard to fill!). Also, my campus isn't particularly ethnically diverse. Any ideas?

[ckeaton]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 1:40pm

It's a real shame that you limit it to 4 women...
Because Michele Lowe's "Smell of the Kill" is a wonderfully dark comedy (with a twist) for three not necessarily ethincally diverse women.

(Very popular recently... considering the success of 'Desperate Housewives, which has a very similar feel)

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 2:20pm

What about Rosenstrasse? Six main female characters, several men in minor roles. It's the story of a group of Christian women in Berlin who were married to Jewish men. When the men were rounded up and imprisoned at Rosenstrasse, on their way the camps, the women banded together in a 24/7 vigil and eventually freed their men.

Although, if you're at the woman's college near ND that I'm thinking of, you may have done this within the past few years.

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 2:30pm

I saw "Smell of the Kill" a few months ago, and what a great show.:)

[ckeaton]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 2:34pm

It's quite wonderful if done right. :)

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 5:11pm

1. I will look into "Smell of the Kill" for my senior comprehensive play (I have to direct something again...). Unfortunately, for a mainstage production, 3 roles, even double-cast, is just too few.

2. Bluemoon, I do indeed go there. We have not done it recently, but I'm fairly certain we wouldn't, as it has been done in the area. Thanks though.