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Here we have a fantastic collection of lesbian plays and performance art. Featuring scripts from a diverse range of plays from well known theatre troupes such as 'The Five Lesbian Brothers' and 'Split Britches', books focusing on solo performances by artists such as Deb Margolin (from Split Britches) and collections of lesbian monologues.

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	All Books by Djuna Barnes - Author of : The Antiphon Paperback - 148 pages (December 2000) Green Integer Books; ISBN: 1892295563 "Lesbian Plays; The play is unusual; even the author observes in her cautionary note that "a misreading of "The Antiphon" is not possible"; and she herself described the work as a closet-drama. However, upon its original publication, Dag Hammarskjold translated this highly poetic and theatrical play into Swedish, and it was performed at the Royal Swedish Theater to mostly positive reviews. There have been few notable productions since then, but "The Antiphon" remains on of Barnes's most compelling poetic achievements, fitting comfortably alongside the great prose masterwork Nightwood" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Sue-Ellen Case - Author of : Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance Paperback - 276 pages (July 1996) Routledge; ISBN: 0415127661 "Lesbian Plays; Since the late '70s, the Split Britches theater company, comprised of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, and Deborah Margolin have been making lesbian-feminist theater in the United States and Europe. This book collects several of the troupe's texts, among them "Beauty and the Beast," "Upwardly Mobile Home," and "Little Women," arch, post-modern retakes on cultural icons. Case's astute introduction traces the history of this first and most important theater group as it both reflects and creates the thought of feminist art of the last 20 years." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Rosemary Keefe Curb - Author of : Amazon All Stars : Thirteen Lesbian Plays Paperback - 426 pages (April 1996) Applause Theatre Book Pub; ISBN: 155783220X "Lesbian Plays; Anthology - Collects for the first time major lesbian plays from controversial cultural perspectives spanning more than a generation of work in varied theatrical styles representing an amazing gamut of lesbian politics from all over America." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Five Lesbian Brothers - Author of : Five Lesbian Brothers/Four Plays Paperback - 286 pages (May 30, 2000) Consortium Book Sales & Dist; ISBN: 1559361662 "Lesbian Plays; The Brothers are a New York original! Finally, scripts to recall their wildly entertaining plays! While these are best appreciated live and in the flesh; it cannot be denied that reading them is a blast. These plays are absolutely brilliant: silly and subversive, bawdy and tender. Imagine John Waters, The Ridiculous Theatre Co. and The Carol Burnett Show all thrown into a blender - with a nod to Hollywood's Sapphic melodrama. Murderous secretaries! Love and heartbreak in an orphanage! Lesbians in space - with a monkey??!! In a word - hysterical; and a great literary taste of NYC theatre." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Carolyn Gage - Author of : Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors Paperback - 224 pages (August 1999) Odd Girls Pr; ISBN: 1887237100 "Lesbian Plays; Finally! A book for lesbians who are tired of "passing" at auditions and in acting classes and workshops! Here at last, from one of the most talented and inventive contemporary playwrights, is a book of twenty-five monologues and forty-five scenes by, for, and about lesbians. Here are dramatic portrayals of our coming-out stories, our strategies of resistance, our rescue of survivors of sexual abuse, our passions, our torture, our triumphs. The settings are historic and contemporary, ranging from the goddess temples of Lesbos to the locker rooms of a softball team." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada:
	All Books by Deb Margolin - Author of : Of All the Nerve : Deb Margolin Solo Paperback - 224 pages (March 1999) Cassell Academic; ISBN: 0304703192 "Lesbian Plays; The "Critical Performance" series pairs a performance artist or playwright with a critical theorist in a dialogue aimed to elucidate both disciplines. This volume focuses on Deb Margolin, one of the three founding members of the American performance troupe Split Britches." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Diana Son - Author of : Stop Kiss Paperback - 96 pages (March 2000) Overlook Press; ISBN: 0822217317 *~~ Featured Review ~~* "Lesbian Plays; It doesn't do this play justice to say that much of the action takes place in a hospital room around the bed of a comatose woman. On the other hand, it may explain why critics have been so impressed. From unpromising material--standard urban settings, stilted exchanges, missed cues, private jokes, half-finished sentences--Diana Son has crafted a subtle, moving drama about vulnerability and risk. When Callie, a twentysomething New York traffic reporter, promises to take on a cat owned by Sara, "some friend of an old friend of someone," she arranges to leave quickly after Sara drops off the cat so that she doesn't get drawn into a dull evening with a stranger. Callie is an expert at avoiding conflict, which serves her well in the city. Sara, on the other hand, has willingly left her job at a Quaker school in St. Louis to teach third-graders in the Bronx. Although both are "straight" women, they circle each other warily, nursing an unspoken attraction. The playwright's choice to shuttle back and forth in time, between the hospital room and police station and the early days of Callie and Sara's friendship, lends a bittersweet quality to even their lightest exchanges, allowing us to wonder, along with the two women, whether the violent outcome of their single kiss makes it a bad idea. Stop Kiss revises Romeo and Juliet, with one thug and the mores of a nation standing in for the family feud." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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