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13 Propositions for Rewiring the Lesbian Brain

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A 36-page "electrician's manual" for rethinking basic concepts about relationships.

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The Abolition Plays

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Two short plays on prostitution: Head in the Game and The Intimacy Coordinator

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The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Millennial Gold-Diggers

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“The transnational, postmodern magic show of the millennium!” The A-Mazing Yamashita promises to levitate a woman, cut a woman in two, and disappear a hundred thousand women – all through the wizardry of modern pharmaceuticals, the presto-chango of sexual commodification, and the wonders of the Great Cabinet of GATT.

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The Amazon All-Stars: The Musical Arrangements

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Complete small-combo arrangements for musical The Amazon All-Stars. Book and lyrics by Carolyn Gage. Music and arrangements by Sue Carney.

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The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women
An Interactive Drama in Two Acts

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A play with intense audience participation! Engrossing, controversial courtroom drama, where the audience must serve as judge and jury, deciding motions and verdict, in a case against the five women who betrayed the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, the last surviving daughter of the Tsar of Russia. Complex ethical questions on a set of folding chairs.

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At Sea
A 10-Minute Play

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Two lesbian buddies in their 80’s have escaped from a nursing home at night, stolen a sailboat, and are planning a double suicide out on the ocean. At Sea is a fleeting (no pun intended) celebration of lesbian friendship, sailing, marijuana, and resistance.

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Babe! An Olympian Musical

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Big, brassy, full-cast, mainstage musical, featuring a high school gymnasium dance and beauty pageant, a choreographed jazz interpretation of a women’s basketball game, a pajama party on the Olympic train, a tango at the country club, and one of the most stunning love duets in musical theatre. Numbers include “Let the Boys Lead the Dance,” “Raise the Bar!,” “Readin’ the Green,” and Babe’s theme song, “Winning Makes Up for It All.” Click here for sample of songs. (Vocal score and CD available on request.) 

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

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Anthology of three full-length plays inclulding some with large casts, multiple scenes and subplots, two intermissions, epic themes, and a span of 50 years. In McClintock's Corn, Stigmata, and The Spindle.

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Black Eye
A Knock Out in Nine Minutes

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Subtitled “a knockout in nine minutes,” this short play packs a punch. The year is 1953, and Amanda is a 13-year-old tomboy who has been sent to the principal’s office for fighting the boys who have been lesbian-baiting her. When the principal, who is in the closet, moves to expel her, Amanda’s lesbian P.E. teacher shows that she is just as willing to fight as her student. A taut play, filled with surprises.

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Black Star
A Play About Henrietta Vinton Davis

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In Black Star, the greatest African American classical actress of the 19th Century, Henrietta Vinton Davis, wrestles with a ghost who is calling into question her entire lifework.

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El Bobo: A One-Act Play

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A 10-minute dramatic adaptation of Anton Chekhov's short story "The Ninny."  A wealthy white male employer attempts to teach the Latina housekeeper a lesson in standing up for herself, but she turns the tables.

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Brett Hears the Mountain Gods

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A monologue adapted from writings of  Taos painter Dorothy Brett. Brett breaks her silence about her trip to Italy with D.H. Lawrence and the two traumatic nights when he attempted to make love to her. Ten minutes.

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Catalog of Books and Plays

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Complete catalog of books, plays, CD's, etc. by Carolyn Gage

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Coming About
A Play in Three Acts

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Gage's first full-length play.

A domestic drama that examines the dramatic sea change in the institution of marriage since the 1950's.

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The Countess and the Lesbians

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Three lesbian actors are rehearsing an historical play about Countess Markiewicz and the aftermath of her participation in the Easter Week Rising in Dublin. The play is about her political differences with her sister, who was a pacifist. As the women take up the issues of the play, the power dynamics of their own lesbian relationships are called into question.

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Deep Haven
An Adaptation of the Writings of Sarah Orne Jewett

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Deep Haven takes the audience through the life of 19th century Maine writer Sarah Orne Jewett, beginning with her tomboy childhood and ending with her touching final communications with her life partner Annie Fields. The text of the play is adapted from Jewett’s novels and letters, as well as from the poems and diary entries of her juvenilia.

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Easter Sunday
A One-Act Play

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The year is 1960. The park is Morningside. The day is Easter. A play about love and drinking, and class differences between lesbians. A story of resurrection.

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Esther and Vashti
A Drama in Two Acts

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A romantic drama set against a backdrop of war in ancient Persia. A young Hebrew woman and her former lover, the Queen of Persia, struggle against their personal and political differences to form an alliance against a common enemy.

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Female Nude Seated

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Two Irish art students meet in a student rooming house in London, late one night in 1917. Both of them are at dramatic turning points in their lives and on the brink of making disastrous choices. Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone go on to revolutionize art in Ireland.

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The Gaia Papers
In Search of a Science of Gaia

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The Gaia Papers is a fifty-page treatise exploring the age-old question of evil through a lens of radical feminist metaphysics. Gage applies principles of a radical spirituality based on the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy to challenge the impact of gendered violence.

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Giovanna d'Arco - la rivolta
Italian translation of The Second Coming of Joan of Arc

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New Italian translation by Edy Quaggio of The Second Coming of Joan of Arc.

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The Great Fire

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Two sisters and their brother wait for rescue by boat on the beach of Bar Harbor, as the Great Fire of 1947 destroys the entire town. The former chambermaid provides a key to escape from the apocalyptic scenario. A ten-minute play.

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Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist

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Harriet Tubman, suspected of planning an escape, has been sent to the therapist, another African-American woman, for an evaluation. Radical activism meets one-day-at-a-time therapism. Published by Samuel French, presented at Louisville Juneteenth Festival, winner of Off-Off Broadway Festival.

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Hermeneutic Circlejerk

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A farcical satire on the founding of postmodern theory by two philosophers with a public history of pro-pedophilia activism. Is it just a coincidence that postmodernism deconstructs "children," or could that be the raison d'etre of this philosophy?

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Hotter Than Hell
More Sermons For a Lesbian Tent Revival

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A third collection of  sermons from the Lesbian Tent Revival, including the Joanna Russ Memorial Sermon, Lesbians Are Not Gay Men, Trauma Literacy and Sexual Intimacy, Butches Who Saved the World and How They Did It.

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Hrotsvitha's Vision

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A 10th century, German nun who is a playwright realizes that a 20th century lesbian who is translating her work is abandoning it in the face of war. The nun exorts her translator to remember the great secret for liberation that is embedded in her plays. A two-minute monologue.

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In McClintock's Corn

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The entire play is set in a cornfield. The play is about gender-non-conforming geneticist Barbara McClintock and her companion/partner Harriet Creighton, and McClintock’s revolutionary quest to understand diversity in nature and to reframe “deviance” as an expression of natural variance.

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The Island Collection

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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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A Labor Play

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Kafka-esque one-act about a multi-national corporation in the business of selling babies. “Business as usual” comes to a halt when one of the workers strikes for control of the distribution of manufactured goods. In other words, she wants to keep the baby.

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The Ladies' Room
A Play in Five Minutes

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A five-minute play about two lesbian teenagers in a ladies' room at a shopping mall. The butch has been mistaken for a man, and mall security is on the way. Her girlfriend is unable to share her anger, because of her own history.

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Leading Ladies
A Cabaret Musical

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Sparkling gem of a cabaret musical! Six leading ladies take stage with musical numbers celebrating the turning points in their respective careers. Cast includes Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanora Duse, and Laurette Taylor. A special treat for theatre lovers. Click here for a sample of songs. LEAD SHEETS AND CD AVAILABLE.

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The Lesbian Tent Revival Radio Hour Podcasts

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A DVD with twenty-one audio podcasts by "Sister Carolyn" of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Synapse from the Lesbian Tent Revival! Blessed Be!

NOTE: This is a DVD, not a CD. Files will need to be downloaded, as most CD players will not read a DVD.

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Like There's No Tomorrow:
Meditations for Women Leaving Patriarchy

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This is a daily meditation book, fully indexed, written with a light touch, but a deep politic. Finally, a daily reader for those of us in search of radical healing. HOT ROLE MODELS: Sor Juana de la Cruz, Chrystos, Sappho, Saadawi... and a host of unsung heroines! COOL STRATEGY: How to lay in for a seige, turn the tables, seize the offensive! SUSPENSEFUL STORIES: Donaldina Cameron's daring rescue of prostituted Asian girls, Fannie Lou Hamer's courageous resistance to police brutality, Lillian Hellman's defiant stand at the McCarthy hearings!

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Louisa May Incest

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  The writing of Little Women is  
   interrupted when the character
  Jo March and her famous
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   ending. The struggle for control of the book becomes deadly when Jo accuses Louisa of repressed lesbian desires and incest memories

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Miss Le Gallienne Announces the New Season
A Monologue

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A 10-minute monologue. Actress Eva Le Gallienne faces her first press conference after the fire that almost killed her and the scandal of her girlfriend's divorce. An actor's piece, showcasing PTSD/ intrusive memory hijacking the narrative.

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More Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors

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A follow-up collection of 19 monologues and 26 scenes from Gage's later plays. Historical roles include lighting designer Jean Rosenthal, actors Henrietta Vinton Davis and Nance O'Neil, and AA pioneer Marty Mann.

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The Obligatory Scene
A Play in One Act

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Ostensibly arguing about The Taming of the Shrew, a lesbian couple come to grips with their own marital struggles around the issue of sex.

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The P.E. Teacher
A Play in One Act

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A one-act about misogyny, racism, and homophobia in the schools. A new teacher is hired to replace a lesbian teacher who resigned under suspicious circumstances. When a former lover turns up on staff, it becomes evident that the scapegoating is a cover for the school’s institutionalized violence against women and girls.

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Patricide
A Play in One Minute

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A one minute monologue by a woman of any age, ethnicity, race, orientation, physical ability, class background—in which she telephones and confronts her father on incest.

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The Pickle Play
A Ten-Minute Play

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A whimsical ten-minute play where customers whose lives have become too easy go to the "pickle store" to purchase complications... and find themselves getting more than they bargained for!

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The Poorly-Written Play Festival
Just Possibly the Worst One-Act Ever Written

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Just possibly the worst one-act play ever written! A committee of play readers meet in the Green Room to select the plays for a Festival of Poorly-Written Plays. In the course of the meeting, they violate every tenet of good playwriting in a kind of “Actor’s Nightmare” for playwrights. Riotously funny.

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Radicals
A Play in One Act

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A one-act about the women in the anti-war movement of the Sixties. Sexual tensions fuse with political agendas, as the women cross mine fields of repressed emotion, and the action builds to a violent climax, as the war comes home.

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St. Frances and the Fallen Angels
A One-Act Play

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The ghosts of two survivors of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire come to haunt Frances Perkins, who is on the verge of resigning her position as Secretary of Labor in the Roosevelt Cabinet.

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The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
A One-Woman Play

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In The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Joan returns to share her story with contemporary women. She tells her experiences with the highest levels of church, state, and military, and unmasks the brutal misogyny behind male institutions. Award-winning, internationally-acclaimed drama.

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

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Award-winning collection includes:

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

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Sermons for a Hot Kitchen
From the Lesbian Tent Revival

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Sixteen smokin' hot sermons served up steaming by Sister Carolyn of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Synapse! Hilarious, fierce, provocative, and lesbianic to the bone. If you can't take the heat, you'll be missing out on some nourishing fare!

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Souvenirs from Eden
A One-Act Play

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The ghost of lesbian poet Renée Vivien returns to a pivotal memory from the summer of 1900, when she was in Bar Harbor (“Eden”), Maine, with her lover Natalie Barney. She wrestles with scenarios of traumatic memories in an attempt to find closure.

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The Spindle
An Adult Fairy Tale in Two Acts

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“This play is simply brilliant—in its construct, its characters and its dialogue.”--Sacramento Art and Entertainment Examiner. A children’s theatre play for adults! As thirteen-year old Doko struggles to rescue her best friend the Princess Beauty from the curse that says she will be pricked by a spindle before her sixteenth birthday, the adults in the play grapple with the denial about child sexual abuse that holds the kingdom in a tyrant’s thrall.

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Starting From Zero
One-Act Plays About Lesbians in Love

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A collection that includes: The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived, Little Sister, Souvenirs from Eden, Planchette, Lace Curtain Irish,The Countess and the Lesbians, ‘Til The Fat Lady Sings, Deep Haven, Since I Died.

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Supplemental Sermons for a Lesbian Tent Revival

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A second volume of sermons for a Lesbian Tent Revival, with a special Songbook with lyrics from some of the best-loved sacred songs from the Revival. Includes the Marriage Sermon!

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Thanatron
A Comedy in Two Acts

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This is a rollicking farce about the world’s most dysfunctional family, a doctor with a penchant for assisted suicide, and a lesbian housekeeper with a crush on her employer. An over-the-top comedy about leaving, being left, and what it takes to stay.

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'Til the Fat Lady Sings
A Play with Music

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A play with music for two women in one-act. A fat woman in her 20’s is in the hospital awaiting surgery for a gastric bypass operation she believes necessary for her dream of singing opera professionally. Her partner is against the surgery, and as the patient goes under sedation, she finds herself and her partner in a series of bizarre dreams where her situation incorporates elements of operas by Wagner, Gluck, Verdi, Mozart, and Puccini.  SCORE SOLD SEPARATELY.

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The Triple Goddess
Three Plays

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Three full-length dramas by Carolyn Gage: The Goddess Tour: A murder mystery exploring potentially deadly mother-daughter dyads, played out amid ghostly sightings of lost children and pre-Celtic rituals involving various aspects of the goddess. Ugly Ducklings: Two counselors at a summer camp struggle with their love against a backdrop of homophobia. Scenes with the campers depict with chilling accuracy the cruelty of girls towards those they perceive as outsiders.  Esther and Vashti: A romantic drama set against a backdrop of war in ancient Persia.

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Ugly Ducklings: The Documentary

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This documentary highlights homophobia, bullying and harassment; the real experiences that lead young people to mask their sexual identities, feelings, and questions. By weaving together scenes from the rehearsal process, the play, and from interviews with the fourteen female actors as well as local experts on gender, Hardy Girls Healthy Women and Greater Waterville C4CY have created an important program that can be replicated throughout the country to hopefully change cultural attitudes.

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The Very Short Plays

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A collection of ten 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,and Patricide.

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A Woman's Book of Healing
An Adaptation of Science and Health

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An adaptation of the 19th century classic on metaphysical healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Adapted for feminists seeking a metaphysical system of healing with an emphasis on right relation and connection with the natural world, where a higher power is metaphorically referenced as female.

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ВТОРОТО ПРИШЕСТВИЕ НА ЖАНА Д’АРК

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The Bulgarian translation of Gage's award-winning, one-woman show, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc.

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52 Pickup
A 10-Minute Play

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Janiya, a young woman is in the hospital on a mandatory suicide watch after her third attempt. She is visited by her ex-girlfriend Cil. As they both struggle with the aftermath of the attempt, the two women arrive at a dynamic that might be a game-changer.

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Ain't Got No-I Got Life
A Monologue

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The Amazon All-Stars
A Musical Comedy from Far Left Field

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A box office home run! Musical comedy about a lesbian softball team with a player who is really out in left field. Fantasy numbers include the Miss Butch Universe Pageant, a lesbian Star Trek, and the lesbian World Series. Show has broken box office records in three theatres! SCORE SOLD SEPARATELY. Click here for a sample of music.

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Amy Lowell: In Her Own Words
A One-Woman Reading

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A platform reading by the famous Imagist herself, including the erotic love poems written for her beloved partner Ada Dwyer. Also includes diary entries, observations on writing poetry, rebuttals to critics, and her passionate tribute to the actress Eleanora Duse.

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Artemisia and Hildegard
An Exorcism in One Act

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Two of the most powerful women artists in history discuss their work on an explosive arts panel about survival strategies for women artists.

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AXED!
An Evening of One Ax

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Two one-acts about Lizzie Borden.  Lace Curtain Irish and The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived.

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Battered on Broadway
A Vendetta in One Act

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Farcical romp that takes a backwards look at the misogyny of Broadway’s musicals through the eyes of the characters themselves... decades later!

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Bite My Thumb
A Skirmish in One Act

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A “skirmish in one-act.” Two “gangs” from contemporary rival productions of Romeo and Juliet meet in an Off-Off Broadway alley to rumble, sixteenth-century style. Lots of cross-dressed knee-flexing and gender-bending! 

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Black Eye and Other Short Plays

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A collection of ten of Gage's hardest-hitting one-act plays, including: Black Eye, The Ladies’ Room, The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Gold-diggers of 2011, A Labor Play, Heterosexuals Anonymous, The Boundary Trial of John Proctor, The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide, The Gage and Mr. Comstock, The P.E. Teacher, and The Rules of the Playground.

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El Bobo (short screenplay)

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A screenplay adaptation of Anton Chekhov's short story "The Ninny." A contemporary encounter between a wealthy employer and his Latina housekeeper.

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The Boundary Trial of John Proctor

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A one act featuring the notorious anti hero of Arthur Miller’s Crucible, and the women he exploited. John Proctor, finding himself in the boundary lands of patriarchy after his execution, encounters a second trial—this time by the women. Proctor, who does not believe in witches, scrambles desperately for context as he is tested by his ex-wife, his mistress, a formerly enslaved Caribbean woman, the town baglady, the town bluestocking, and the town matriarch.

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Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter

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A fifteen-minute, one-woman show. Calamity Jane Sends A Message to Her Daughter is a tribute to masculine women living in times when lesbian or transgendered identities were not understood. Accustomed to ridicule and contempt, Calamity survives through a combination of self-deprecating humor, myth-making, and alcohol—shrewdly propagating the myths about herself that will ensure her a place in history.

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The Clarity of Pizza
A Five-Minute Play

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A lesbian and her heterosexual best friend get into a fight over a guy while eating pizza.

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Cookin' With Typhoid Mary
A Culinary Monologue

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Half-hour dramatic monologue by the notorious typhoid carrier who refused to admit the existence of germs. Her side of the story.

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Crossing the Rapelands
A One-Woman Show

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This is a travelogue along the lines of the work of Spaulding Gray, about the playwright’s experiences of hitchhiking through America in the early 1970's—specifically about hitchhiking from Boulder to Los Angeles, to San Francisco and back with another woman in the summer of 1973. 

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The Drum Lesson
A One-Act Play for Drummers

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A one-act for five women drummers, in which much of the dialogue is conveyed via the drumming.

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Entr'acte, or
The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped

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Eva Le Gallienne has checked herself into a private hospital the night she was raped backstage during her Broadway run of Liliom. She has sent for her former girlfriend Mimsey, whom she has not seen since Mimsey’s marriage ten months earlier. A tour-de-force for a young actor, running a gamut of dissociative states of a survivor of sexual abuse.

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The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide
A Radio Drama

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Fast-paced radio drama, suitable for stage production. The conspiracy of the German drug manufacturers and the FDA unfolds like a murder mystery, as Dr. Frances Kelsey, suspecting birth defects, stalls for time against mounting pressures to license sale of “the sleeping pill of the century."

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The Gage and Mr. Comstock

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A monologue by feminist foremother and Suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage, in which she sets the bait for Anthony Comstock to ban her book, Woman, Church and State, a comprehensive exposé of the historical misogyny of the christian church.

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Georgia and the Butch
A Dramatic Adaptation of the Correspondence Between Maria Chabot and Georgia O'Keeffe

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A dramatic adaptation using excerpts from the letters between Maria Chabot, a young, gender-non-conforming lesbian and the renowned artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Who was the butch who took Georgia O’Keeffe camping in the mountains of New Mexico, who was her “handyman” (her words), who was her intimate friend for nine years, and who was designer/general contractor/builder for her internationally renowned house in Abiquiu—and who did it all for love?

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The Goddess Tour
A Murder Mystery in Two Acts

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It’s a dark and stormy night at a remote inn on the Burren of Western Ireland, as six American women -- strangers to each other (or are they?) -- gather for a tour of ancient goddess sites. A murder mystery exploring potentially deadly mother-daughter dyads, played out amid ghostly sightings of lost children and pre-Celtic rituals involving various aspects of the goddess.

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The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived

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A closeted reporter arrives in the dressing room of veteran stage-and-film star Nance O'Neil, and as Nance shares the details of her affair with alleged ax murderess Lizzie Borden, the two women share a moment of intimacy.

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Head in the Game

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A persuasive case for abolishing prostitution. In the Boxing Girl Gym, the clients pay by the hour to "work out" with "sparring partners." The "sparring partners" paid to let the client win, which means they don't punch back. Perfectly legal variation of a popular recreation... no?

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Heterosexuals Anonymous

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A playful send-up of the 12-step movement. Five women in recovery from their addictions to men, convene at their weekly meeting. The format includes personal testimonies and the reading of the 12 Steps of HA.

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How to Write a Country-Western Song
A Concert With a Plot

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A five-woman “concert with a plot.” Two sets of lovers, both former bandmates, struggle with recovery on the eve of a concert. Show combines country-western, punk rock, hip hop, gospel, and blues... using a concert stage for the set. CD OF SCORE SOLD SEPARATELY.  Click here for sample of songs.

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I Have Come To Show You Death

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Dramatic adaptations of the writings of four 19th century, New England women writers, dealing with lesbian life partners and death.Stories include "Two Friends" by Mary Wilkins Freeman, "Since I Died" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "There and Here" by Alice Brown, and a scene from Deephaven by Sarah Orne Jewett.

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The Intimacy Coordinator

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A short play about what happens when an intimacy coordinator interrupts an appointment between a prostituted woman and her client.

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Jane Addams and the Devil Baby

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Hull House, rumored to be sheltering a “devil baby,” is besieged by emigrants clamoring to see the child with horns and hooves. Jane Addams locks horns with an elderly Irish woman, in an attempt to understand the strange obsession that has gripped Chicago.

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Lace Curtain Irish

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Thirty-five years after the infamous Fall River ax murders, an Irish woman, working in her kitchen in Anaconda, Montana, opens a newspaper to read about the death of the alleged murderer, Lizzie Borden. The woman is Bridget Sullivan, the Borden's former maid. A gripping one-woman one-act that turns history on its head.

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The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman
A One-Woman Play

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Captivating evening with one of the greatest actresses of the nineteenth century. Charlotte Cushman, a large butch woman, made a name for herself in “breeches parts,” and treats the audience to excerpts from her Hamlet, Romeo, and Cardinal Wolsey—as well as scenes and other monologues from her repertoire. National award for “best play about a lesbian historical figure.”

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Leading Ladies: The Lead Sheets

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The lead sheets for the score of Leading Ladies: A Cabaret Musical.

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Lighting Martha
A One-Act Play About Jean Rosenthal

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A one-act about the lesbian relationship between legendary lighting designer Jean Rosenthal and her assistant Miki (Marion) Kinsella. The play explores the pain of losing a life partner, and the challenges of loving a committed artist.

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Little Sister

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By Carolyn Gage with Christopher N. Courchene.
A tribal police officer struggles with her lesbian partner over issues of loyalty and definitions of "family" and "tribe." The play ends on a note of hope rooted in a fierce history of resistance in a culture that considered Two Spirit people sacred and the well-being of the child a tribal priority.

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Mason-Dixon

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Separated for thirty years, a white woman attempts to recruit her former slave to return to the South to work as a Union spy in the Confederate White House. Issues of race, class, and gender explode as the women confront their lesbian girlhood and shared history of sexual abuse.

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Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors
Revised and Expanded

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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 thirty-two monologues and sixty scenes by, for, and about lesbians. This collection includes scenes with characters taken from lesbian history: Jane Addams, Charlotte Cushman, Joan of Arc, Calamity Jane, Sappho, Babe Didrikson, Benedetta Carlini, Renée Vivien, Natalie Barney, and Eva LeGallienne.

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Nine Short Plays

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Nine of Gage's most popular one-act plays, including: Bite My Thumb, Patricide, Jane Addams and the Devil Baby, Battered on Broadway, Louisa May Incest, The Rules of the Playground, The Obligatory Scene, The Pele Chant, and Entr'acte, or The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped.

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On the Other Hand
A Meta Puppet Play

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A meta puppet play, where two hand puppets, Lorna and Judy become gradually aware of the external forces that are controlling and manipulating them.

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The Parmachene Belle
A One-Woman Show in One Act

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The Parmachene Belle is in the collection of plays that was the national winner of the 2008 Lambda Literary Award in Drama. “Fly Rod” Crosby, a lesbian Maine hunting guide from the late 19th century, shares secrets about fly-fishing as she indulges in her romantic fantasies about her friend Annie Oakley.

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The Pele Chant
A Civilized Conversation in One Act

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A ninety-two-year-old Native Hawaiian woman struggles with the last request of her adoptive mother, Queen Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawai’i. Succeeding in her quest, she overturns the paradigm of Western history, exposing its inherently colonial agenda.

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Planchette
A One-Act Play

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During a nor-easter on the New Hampshire coast, in 1879, two thirteen-year-olds share their secrets about trauma they have survived and the deeper secrets about their sexual orientations and gender identities. A tender and romantic play.

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The Princess of Pain

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The story of a woman's quest to accept what cannot be accepted. Beautifully illustrated by Sudie Rakusin.

"The Princess of Pain is deceptively simple and universally human. Gage’s story engages the heart and mind, pulling the reader forward with hope and desire. Rakusin’s illustrations absorb the reader—this is not a story you merely dip a toe in; it is full-bodied, immersive. — Hilary Brown, author of When She Woke She Was an Open Fiel

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The Rules of the Playground
A Play in One Act

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Six mothers of middle-school children come together for a special training on playground violence. Focusing on perfecting the rules of the playground to eliminate inequality, the women, literally, turn a blind eye to the real cause of violence. A chilling interrogation into the ways women teach each other to enable male violence.

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Sappho in Love
A Comedy in Two Acts

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A lesbian midsummer night’s dream with the goddesses of celibacy, love, and marriage competing for Sappho’s attention amid poetry contests, meteor showers, lessons on lesbian love-making, romantic trysting, mix-ups and disguises. Wet and wild romantic comedy!

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The Second Coming of Joan of Arc [CD]
The CD of Gage's Performance

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Audio recording of Gage's iconic performance at June Millington's legendary recording studio, the Institute for the Musical Arts.

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La Seconde Venue de Jeanne d'Arc
Translation by Céline Pomès 

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A new, contemporary French translation by Céline Pomès of Gage's lesbian classic, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc.

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Sermons for a Lesbian Tent Revival

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For the first time in print! Thirteen sermons delivered by Sister Carolyn of the Sacred Synapse at her notorious “Lesbian Tent Revival.” Reviving the spirit of sisterhood from those heady days of the early feminist movement, Sister Carolyn revives her flock in a series of hilarious, radical, rabble-rousing sermons. Sister Carolyn urges her congregation to remember, to synapse, to make the connections between the environmental crisis, and personal nutrition, and psychiatric health, and medical misogyny, and social conditioning, and political awareness.

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Speak Fully the One Awful Word
A Dramatic Adaptation of Lady Byron Vindicated

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A dramatic adaptation of Lady Byron Vindicated, Harriet Beecher Stowe's courageous exposé of Lord Bryon's incest and domestic abuse.

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Starpattern
A One-Act Play

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A play about two extraordinarily courageous young women who survived the 1966 at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Stigmata
A Tragedy in Three Acts

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Stigmata dramatizes the rise and fall of the 17th century, Italian nun, Benedetta Carlini, who becomes elected abbess on the strength of her miraculous manifestation of stigmata, and who is eventually tried by the Inquisition for perpetrating a hoax, as well as committing “peccatum mutum”-- the so-called "silent sin" of homosexuality.

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Take Stage!
How To Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play

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A complete manual for the lesbian who wants to produce or direct lesbian theatre. Everything you need to know from selecting the script to striking the set. Chapters on money, on organizing volunteers, on multi-culturalism, on publicity, on rehearsing. Written with the values and needs of our community in mind.

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Three Comedies

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A collection of three award-winning comedies by Carolyn Gage: The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women: A farcical, audience-interactive, courtroom drama. Sappho in Love: A "Lesbian Midsummer Night’s Dream" with poetry contests, meteor showers, lessons on lesbian love-making, romantic trysting, mix-ups and disguises. Wet and wild romantic comedy! Thanatron:, This is a rollicking farce about the world’s most dysfunctional family, a doctor with a penchant for assisted suicide, and a lesbian housekeeper with a crush on her employer. An over-the-top comedy about leaving, being left, and what it takes to stay.

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'Til the Fat Lady Sings: The Musical Score

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The musical score for 'Til the Fat Lady Sings by Carolyn Gage and Andrea Jill Higgins.

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Ugly Ducklings
A Drama in Two Acts

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Two counselors at a summer camp struggle with their love against a backdrop of homophobia. Scenes with the campers depict with chilling accuracy the cruelty of girls towards those they perceive as outsiders. Powerful, award-winning lesbian drama!

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Valerie Solanas At Matteawan

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Two pioneering activists in the budding Women's Liberation Movement visit Valerie Solanas at the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. It has only been two months since she shot Andy Warhol. They are on a mission to recruit her as a spokeswoman for their movement. Valerie has other things on her mind...

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We Too Are Drifting
by Gale Wilhelm
Screenplay by Carolyn Gage

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Gage's adaptation of the lesbian classic by Gale Wilhelm. Originally published in 1935, the novel was republished in the 1950's, and then again in 1984 by Naiad Press.
Gage has adapted the novel as a screenplay, celebrating the life of butch sculptor Jan Morale, her naive young girlfriend Victoria, and the wealthy and married Madeleine who is determined to keep them apart. The novel is set in San Francisco during the Depression, and it captures the complicated world of lesbians whose passion is pitted against their tremendous economic and social vulnerabilities.

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Women on the Land
A Lesbian Musical

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Small-cast lesbian musical about the culture clash between the urban leather scene and the country dykes on a land collective in Oregon. “Vampire Lesbians From Hell” meet the goddess worshiper in a showdown of values on the night of Beltane. THERE IS CURRENTLY NO MUSIC FOR THIS SHOW.

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贞德再临_中文

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The Chinese (Mandarin) translation by Chen San of Gage's award-winning, one-woman show, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc.

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