Women Centre Stage: Eight Short Plays By and About Women (NHB Modern Plays)

Eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage. Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. How to Not Sink by Georgia Christou looks at duty, love and dependency across three generations of women. In Wilderness by April De Angelis, a patient and her psychiatrist head into the wilderness to find out how sane any of us really are. In Chloe Todd Fordham's The Nightclub, three very different women at a gay nightclub in Orlando are caught up in a terrifying hate crime. Fucking Feminists by Rose Lewenstein is a fiercely funny investigation of what feminism means, and what it has become. Winsome Pinnock's Tituba is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials. In The Road to Huntsville by Stephanie Ridings, a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row finds herself crossing the line. White Lead by Jessica Siân explores the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman. In What is the Custom of Your Grief? by Timberlake Wertenbaker, an English schoolgirl whose brother has been killed on active duty in Afghanistan is befriended online by an Afghan girl. Sphinx Theatre has been at the vanguard of promoting, advocating and inspiring women in the arts through productions, conferences and research for more than forty years.

Georgia Christou took part in Young Writers' Programmes at the Royal Court Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith. Her debut play Yous Two was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award and was produced at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs in 2018. Other theatre includes: How To Spot An Alien (Paines Plough/Theatre Clwyd) and Rocket Girl (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama/Minack Theatre). She has also written short plays for DryWrite, Bush and Sphinx Theatre. TV includes: Through the Gates (Channel Four/Blacklight TV). She has original ideas for television in development with HillBilly films and Various Artists Ltd.