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Playwright Carolyn Gage shares her reflections on being diagnosed as autistic at the age of 68. "Delilah" is an acronym for "diagnosed extremely late in life as autistic," and the author shares her thoughts on sex and relationships, communication, bullying, furniture, and a wide range of subjects from a neurodivergent perspective.

This is a play about the forces of greed and capitalism versus the resilience of organized labor. It is a play about the richest woman in America partnering the woman who represented the working class of the entire nation. It is a play about achieving the impossible, about rising from the ashes-literally, about the power of our remembered history, and about the genius that emerges when the ethos of individualism surrenders to the brilliance of the collective. St. Frances and the Fallen Angels joins a panoply of seasonal holiday plays that combine social justice issues with the supernatural: It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, and Amahl and the Night Visitors.

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.The Anastasia Trials is a farcical, but profoundly engaging excursion into the hidden world of ethics for women who are both survivors and perpetrators of abuse toward women. The format is a play-within-a-play, where a radical feminist theatre company comes together in order to perform a courtroom drama. The play is shaped by the audience decisions to overrule or sustain the attorneys' motions, and every night's audience sees a different play.In presenting the play, the Emma Goldman Theatre Brigade has instituted a new system to insure equal opportunity for the actors: a lottery. As the women assemble to draw their roles from the hat for the evening's performance, sisterhood is put to the test. The performance itself is a conspiracy trial against five women accused of denying a woman her identity. The plaintiff is none other than Anastasia Romanov, sole survivor of the massacre of the Russian imperial family in 1918.¿"Elegantly conceived...A feminist Noises Off." - Washington City Press"Powerful." -San Diego Lesbian Press"Farce, social history, debate play, agitprop, audience participation melodrama, satire [that] makes the head reel!" -San Diego Union Tribune"Wild... It's lively and moves quickly... Very funny yet poignant." -Washington Blade"Carolyn Gage's raucous, multilayered script explores issues of empathy, loyalty, and betrayal among women..." --The Washington Post."Verdict: An unexpected delight... " --Miami Herald, FL."... farcical humor, imaginative plot twists, and just pure theatrical fun..." --South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale."... fascinating and complex play..."--Fresno Beehive.com"I am constantly amazed at Carolyn's ability to make complex social issues not only accessible but also irresistibly fascinating... the play... [The Anastasia Trials ] touched us, made us laugh and gripped us in a white-knuckle intensity usually found only in Hitchcock films." --R.J. McComish, Literary Manager of the Portland Stage Company, Portland, Maine."... fabulously interesting, brilliantly thought-provoking and exquisitely funny... masterpiece of feminist theater..." --off our backs, Washington, DC."Each performance could potentially have a different result and many students saw every performance just so they could see how the show ended."--At Oldfields, Glencoe, MD.

"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.

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.

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.

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

Three full-length dramas by Carolyn Gage: The Goddess Tour: 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 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. Powerful lesbian drama! Esther and Vashti: 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.

Joan of Arc led an army to victory at seventeen. At eighteen, she engineered the coronation of a king. At nineteen, she went up against the Catholic church...and lost. Her trial lasted five months, and the testimony by witnesses was carefully transcribed by notaries. Twenty years after her death, a new trial was authorized, and again detailed records were kept. There was testimony by her childhood playmates, by her parents, by the women who slept with her, by the soldiers who s