Carolyn Gage

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 lesbian drama

A One-Woman Play

The Second Coming of Joan of Arc

The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Other Plays

..". a classic in every feminist's library."-Sacramento Arts and Entertainment Examiner. A collection of four short stories and one full-length play about lesbian goddesses, princesses and woman princes, super-heroines, and fairy godmothers! Becca and the Woman Prince: A European princess meets an African woman prince in this romantic, multicultural, feminist fairy tale! The Princess of Pain: A woman struggling with disabilty sets out on a ten-goddess quest for answers. Illustrated by Sudie Rakusin! The Furies: Three lesbian super-heroines debate the wisdom of accepting a young survivor into their league. Andrea and Medusa Get Intimate: Two lesbian super-heroines discover that some of the most dangerous missions are the ones closest to home. The Spindle: In this "children's theatre for adults," a young lesbian sets out to rescue the princess from the curse of the spindle-pricking on her sixteenth birthday, only to discover that the entire kingdom is under the spindle spell

The Spindle and Other Lesbian Fairy Tales

Like There's No Tomorrow takes no prisoners. This is a meditation book which will clear your political sinuses and blow out the cobwebs of fuzzy "live-and-let-live" thinking. The essays may be read as a series of mini-lectures or as inspirational meditations. From such Hot Role Models as Gertrude Stein, Chyrstos, bell hooks, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Audre Lorde. The quotations have been selected with scrupulous attention to multi-culturalism, which not only includes representation of women of varying races and ethnicities, but also of varying physical abilities, ages, weights, sexual orientations, and class background.

Meditations for Women Leaving Patriarchy

Like There's No Tomorrow

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!

A Comedy in Two Acts

Sappho in Love

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.

A Play in Two Acts

Esther and Vashti

This is a one-woman show 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. In this tale of lost lesbian love, Gage incorporates the tales of other women crossing the "Rapelands" of the West: Sacajawea, Janis Joplin, Thelma and Louise, and the Women of the Orego

Crossing the Rapelands: A One-Woman Show

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.

At Sea : A Ten - Minute Play

Don Nigro

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.

An Interactive Comedy in Two Acts

The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women

Two short plays on prostitution by Carolyn Gage. The plays include Head in the Game and The Intimacy Coordinator.

Head in the Game and The Intimacy Coach

The Abolition Plays

Head In the Game and The Intimacy Coordinator

A collection of three full-length plays by Carolyn Gage: In McClintock's Corn, Stigmata, and The Spindle. 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 playwright

In McClintock's Corn, Stigmata, The Spindle

Big Plays

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.

Nine Short Plays

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, Patricide, and Miss Le Gallienne Announces the New Season.

The Very Short Plays

This is Carolyn Gage's second volume of monologues and scenes for lesbian actors. Some of her characters are historical, and not always lesbian: actresses Nance O'Neil and Henrietta Vinton Davis, Alcoholics Anonymous pioneer Marty Mann, lighting designer Jean Rosenthal... and Lizzie Borden's maid! A fascinating companion to her first volume.

More Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors

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

The Intimacy Coordinator

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 available.

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

The first comprehensive 'how-to' book for lesbians wanting to produce or direct lesbian theatre.

How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play

Take Stage!

In this stunning collection of seven plays, Carolyn Gage shows us the real women behind the sterile patriarchal stereotypes: the angry teenage lesbian Joan of Arc; the alcoholic butch Calamity Jane; the Louis May Alcott with repressed incest memories; the political prisoner known as "Typhoid Mary"; the lesbian Jane Addams. Blazing with anger and crackling with wit, Gage's women redraw the map of contemporary theatre in a formidable bid to TAKE BACK THE STATE!

Collection of one-act plays and adaptations by Carolyn Gage, including: The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived, Souvenirs from Eden,Planchette, Lace Curtain Irish,Little Sister,The Countess and the Lesbians,‘Til The Fat Lady Sings,Deep Haven, and Since I Died.

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