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Help with play ideas!
emilygalloway17
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Help with play ideas!#1
Posted: 3/4/15 at 3:55pm
I am looking to for a show to produce at my college. Ideally, the cast should be somewhere between 5 and 15 characters, with at least some strong female roles. No musicals.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
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Help with play ideas!#2
Posted: 3/4/15 at 4:07pm
Can you give a few more specifics? Cast size? Contemporary or classic? Comedy or drama?
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Help with play ideas!#2
Posted: 3/4/15 at 4:22pm
Cast should be somewhere around 10, but that is flexible. I prefer classic, dramatic plays, but I am open to anything! Ideally, they would be plays that are cheap to produce!

Thanks!
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Help with play ideas!#3
Posted: 3/4/15 at 4:25pm
I believe Emily gave us her cast size.

Emily, look at plays by Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley and other female playwrights. Not that male writers don't also write great roles for women, because they can and they do. It's just that you're almost certain to find strong female roles in plays by female playwrights.
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Help with play ideas!#4
Posted: 3/4/15 at 4:27pm
Steel Magnolias
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Help with play ideas!#5
Posted: 3/4/15 at 4:34pm
Fefu and Her Friends
By María Irene Fornés
She was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
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Help with play ideas!#6
Posted: 3/4/15 at 5:51pm
Summer and Smoke would be a nice choice

As would Outward Bound or I Remember Mama
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Help with play ideas!#7
Posted: 3/4/15 at 5:56pm
Well, some posters will scream, but "The Children's Hour" by Hellman can be staged with resonance and insight about another time. The London revival was well received. And a slew of roles for women.

But Also:

"Uncommon Women and Others" Wassterstein
"Cloud Nine" by Caryl Churchill





"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
Updated On: 3/4/15 at 05:56 PM
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Help with play ideas!#8
Posted: 3/4/15 at 6:23pm
Jake's Women by Neil Simon
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