MEDITERRANEAN PLAYS BY WOMEN
ed. Marion Baraitser

Six plays from countries geographically linked but politically divided.

12 WOMEN IN A CELL, written after captivity in Egypt by Nawal el Saadawi.

THE END OF THE DREAM SEASON, a woman doctor outwits her friends and relations to retain her inheritance, by Israeli writer Miriam Kainy.

LIBRATION, A mysterious, intense and comic two-hander about two women who meet in a city park at night, by Catalan writer Lluisa Cunillé.

MEPHISTO, from the novel by Klaus Mann, the story of a German actor who sells his soul to Nazi ideology, adapted by the eminent French writer/director Ariane Mnouchkine.

HARSH ANGEL, a gentle Chekhovian tale of a family torn by the partition of their native land, written by Cypriot writer Maria Avraamidou.

VERONICA FRANCO describes the life of a sixteenth century Venetian courtesan and poet, by Italy’s foremost woman writer Dacia Maraini.

'…a great opportunity for those who don’t see much live theatre by women to know what they’ve been missing.' Everywoman Magazine