Plays By Women

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Tinch Minter and Elisabeth-Pable won a "Time Out" Award for their translations of the "Ingolstadt Plays" and directors Annie Castledine and Stephen Daldry won the Empty Space Award for their production in the same year. Three prose pieces by Fleisser are also included in this volume. Also included in this selection of plays is Sheila Yeger's dream play "Variations", where Louise's research into 19th-century composer and pianist Clara Schumann is played against the voices of other women, past and present, real and fantastical, counterpointing her search for her own identity.

Annie Castledine was born in 1939 and brought up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. She was Artistic Director of the Derby Playhouse from 1987-1990 and Associate Artistic Director of Theatr Clywd from 1985-7. Awards include: the Bass Charrington London Fringe Award for Best Ensemble and Best Director for From the Mississippi Delta, and Time Out Award for Best Director for Pioneers in Ingolstadt and Purgatory in Ingolstadt, Time Out Critics Choice for And All The Children Cried.

'Extraordinary Bavarian dramatist Marieluise Fleisser's revelatory Ingolstadt plays prove the extent to which the contribution of women dramatists to world drama has been written out of the history books.' * Michael Billington, Guardian * 'Tokens of Affection is a classic piece of lapel-grabbing theatre by Maureen Lawrence... savagely entertaining.' * Tim Brown, Guardian *