Carolyn Gage
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      • The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
      • La Seconde Venue de Jeanne d'Arc
      • Joana Dark - a re-volta
      • Giovanna d'Arco - la rivolta
      • ВТОРОТО ПРИШЕСТВИЕ НА ЖАНА Д’АРК (Bulgarian tranlsation of The Second Coming of Joan
      • 贞德再临_中文 (Mandarin translation of The Second Coming of Joan of Arc)
      • The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman
      • Crossing the Rapelands
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      • The Amazon All-Stars
      • Babe! An Olympian Musical
      • How to Write a Country-Western Song
      • Leading Ladies
      • Women on the Land
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      • The Abolition Plays
      • The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women
      • AXED!
      • Black Star
      • Coming About
      • Esther and Vashti
      • The Goddess Tour
      • In McClintock's Corn
      • Sappho in Love
      • The Spindle
      • Stigmata
      • Thanatron
      • Ugly Ducklings
    • One-Acts >
      • Ain't Got No - I Got Life
      • The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Millennial Gold-Diggers
      • Artemisia and Hildegard
      • Battered on Broadway
      • Bite My Thumb
      • The Boundary Trial of John Proctor
      • Cookin' with Typhoid Mary
      • The Countess and the Lesbians
      • The Drum Lesson
      • Easter Sunday
      • Entr'acte or The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped
      • The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide
      • Female Nude Seated
      • The Gage and Mr. Comstock
      • The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived
      • Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist
      • Head in the Game
      • Hermeneutic Circlejerk
      • Heterosexuals Anonymous
      • Jane Addams and the Devil Baby
      • A Labor Play
      • Lace Curtain Irish
      • Lighting Martha
      • Little Sister
      • Louisa May Incest
      • Mason-Dixon
      • The Obligatory Scene
      • The P.E. Teacher
      • The Parmachene Belle
      • The Pele Chant
      • Planchette
      • The Poorly-Written Play Festival
      • Radicals
      • The Rules of the Playground
      • St. Frances and the Fallen Angels
      • Souvenirs from Eden
      • Starpattern
      • 'Til the Fat Lady Sings
      • Valerie Solanas At Matteawan
    • Short Short Plays >
      • 52 Pickup
      • At Sea
      • Black Eye
      • El Bobo
      • Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter
      • The Clarity of Pizza
      • The Great Fire
      • Hrotsvitha's Vision
      • The Intimacy Coordinator
      • The Ladies' Room
      • Miss Le Gallienne Announces the New Season
      • On the Other Hand
      • Patricide
      • The Pickle Play
    • Dramatic Adaptations >
      • Amy Lowell: In Her Own Words
      • Brett Remembers
      • Deep Haven
      • El Bobo (one-act play)
      • El Bobo (short screenplay)
      • Emily & Sue >
        • Touring Production of Emily & Sue >
          • The Creative Team
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          • Adaptor's notes
          • Open Me Carefully
      • I Have Come to Show You Death
      • Speak Fully The One Awful Word
      • We Too Are Drifting (Screenplay)
    • Special Index: Plays That Deal with Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls
    • Special Index: Women's History Plays
    • Special Index: Romantic Plays with Happy Endings
  • Touring Work
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      • Lace Curtain Irish
      • Crossing the Rapelands
      • The Parmachene Belle (performance)
      • Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter (performance)
      • Gage on Stage
    • Lectures >
      • Lizzie Borden and Lesbian Theatre
      • The Secret Life of Lesbians
      • Paradigms and Paradigm-Shifting
      • When Sex Is Not the Metaphor For Intimacy
      • Meeting the Ghost of Hamlet's Father
      • A Theatrical Journey Through Maine's Lesbian History
      • Tara and Other Lies
      • Teena Brandon's Inconvenient Truth
    • Workshops >
      • The Art of the Dramatic Monologue
      • Acting Lesbian
      • Interrupting Racism: A Workshop
      • Playwriting Techniques for Poets and Fiction Writers
      • Ugly Ducklings Workshop
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    • The Lesbian Tent Revival >
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      • The Lesbian Tent Revival Radio Hour Podcasts
      • The Lesbian Tent Revival Sermon on Dying Well
      • Sermons for a Lesbian Tent Revival
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      • Hotter Than Hell
      • The Synapse Pendant
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Gage Play Anthologies

Big Plays
In McClintock's Corn, Stigmata, The Spindle

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"Huge casts, gigantic themes, multiple subplots, more scenes than a Shakespeare play, two intermissions, epic sweeps of history, breathtaking relevance with heart-stopping suspense and momentum…  in other words, what would have been known in previous eras as 'plays.' By one of the world’s most prolific and feminist playwrights."--from back cover

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The Island Collection
New Plays by Carolyn Gage

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"I’ve been a “theatre person” for 26 years, and I have never enjoyed reading plays… until The Island Collection. This is a collection that I could not stop reading. Reading each work is a complete experience: visual, auditory, and emotional. I am still mulling over moments from the first one I read, days later. One simply does not see this caliber of female characters represented on stage or in commonly-studied scripts. Full of vulnerability, intelligence in all its forms, and indomitable strength, the women inhabiting these plays will walk away with your soul... A warning, though: do not pick up The Island Collection unless you are ready for your heart to be torn from your chest, poked, prodded, examined, then lovingly massaged and replaced, a whole new organ..."—Emily Stamets, coach for Women+ In Theatre and leader in the arts.

"Carolyn Gage is the dramatist laureate of unsung lesbian lives. She finds women lost to history and brings them to vivid life onstage with rare empathy, insight, wit, and imagination. Hers is a voice that mainstream theater does not yet know it is missing. That voice can be heard here, however, on every page."—John Stoltenberg, senior reviewer and columnist, DC Metro Theater Arts.

“Most of the plays in The Island Collection imagine key moments in the lives of remarkable women largely forgotten by history. Gage's project is equal parts excavation and imagination. Her dramatizations of lesbian love stories are themselves love letters to the courageous and complicated women who inspire Gage.” –Meghan Brodie, Assistant Professor of Theater, Ursinus College

"Carolyn Gage has been creating plays about and for lesbians for decades. Her work is proficient, moving, and provocative. This collection includes plays about some historical women who had distinguished theatrical careers. But my favorite play is Easter Sunday, a moving story about a working class butch and femme lesbian couple around 1960. It showcases classism."–Carol Anne Douglas,
a member of the  collective of Off Our Backs: Feminist Newsjournal from 1973 to 2008, author, editor, and activist.

Permeating the plays in The Island Collection is a sense of wonder towards the world — its laws and powers... Audiences are given a delicious invitation to ponder whether art can really come to life and whether living people have ghosts...It would be tragic if The Island Collection were embraced only by LGBT theaters and Women’s Studies departments. Although the collection includes tantalizingly complex roles for women—for women of color—for older women—it is really a collection for all artists, all theaters, all people.--Susan Chase, playwright and theater critic for The Morning Call, Allentown, PA.

"Each voice collected by Gage rings with vulnerability, honor, pain, and pride, always avoiding both the museum-relic blandness or the melodramatic exaggeration that is so often found in historical pieces. Gage has captured these engaging living portraits of dramatic and engaging individuals, and brought them to life in all their true, complicated, wonderful, messy humanity...Gage’s new collection is both a laudable effort to preserve these women’s disappearing stories and a deep indictment of a society that has forced such an effort to be necessary. The Island Collection represents the most engaging of source materials as curated and sculpted by the most talented of hands. The collection stands among the best of Gage’s work and is a vital addition to both Women’s Studies and American Dramatic Literature."--John Michael Sefel, Distinguished Fellow, Ohio State University.

A new collection of Gage's plays, including:
  • Black Star
  • Easter Sunday
  • Lighting Martha
  • Female Nude Seated
  • 52 Pickup
  • Miss Le Gallienne Announces the New Season

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The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays
Winner, National Lambda Literary Award

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A  collection of Gage’s one- and two-woman plays, including:

The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman
The Parmachene Belle
Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter
Cookin’ with Typhoid Mary
Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist
Artemisia and Hildegard


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Winner, Lambda Literary Award

Nine Short Plays

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A collection of Gage’s best short plays:

The Obligatory Scene
Bite My Thumb
The Rules of the Playground
The Pele Chant
Patricide
Entr’acte or The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped
Jane Addams and the Devil Baby
Louisa May Incest
Battered on Broadway
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Three Comedies

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A collection of three award-winning, full-length Gage comedies:

The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women
Sappho in Love
Thanatron


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The Triple Goddess
Three Plays

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A collection of three full-length Gage dramas:

The Goddess Tour
Ugly Ducklings
Esther and Vashti


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Black Eye and Other Short Plays

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A collection of ten short plays by Gage:
Black Eye
The Ladies' Room
The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Millennial Gold-Diggers
The Rules of the Playground
The Boundary Trial of John Proctor
The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide
A Labor Play
Heterosexuals Anonymous
The P.E. Teacher
The Gage and Mr. Comstock


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Starting From Zero
One-Act Plays About Lesbians in Love

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Nine of Gage's one-acts:
The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived
Souvenirs from Eden
Lace Curtain Irish
Little Sister
The Countess and the Lesbians
‘Til The Fat Lady Sings
Deep Haven
Since I Died
Planchette


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The Very Short Plays

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A collection of twelve of Carolyn Gage's one-act plays, all running under fifteen minutes in length. Plays include:
At Sea
Black Eye
Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter
The Clarity of Pizza
The Gage and Mr. Comstock
The Great Fire
Head in the Game
A Labor Play
The Ladies’ Room
52 Pickup
Patricide

Miss Le Gallienne Announces the New Season

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