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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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Winner in 2009 Lamba Literary Award in Drama!
The Obligatory Scene
Bite My Thumb
Entr'acte
The Pele Chant
Louisa May Incest
The Rules of the Playground
Patricide
Jane Addams and the Devil Baby
Battered on Broadway
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The Goddess Tour
Ugly Ducklings
Esther and Vashti
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The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women
Sappho in Love
Thanatron
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Black Eye
The Ladies' Room
The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Gold Diggers of 2011
The Rules of the Playground
The Boundary Trial of John Proctor
The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide
A Labor Play
Heterosexuals Anonymous
The P.E. Teacher
The Gage and Mr. Comstock
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"Becca and the Woman Prince"
"The Princess of Pain"
"The Furies"
"Andrea and Medusa Get Intimate"
The Spindle (full-length play)
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The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
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Louisa May Incest
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Cookin' with Typhoid Mary
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Print: $7.08 Download: FREE FREE DOWNLOAD! Also, you can browse the complete contents online. A catalog of plays and books by Carolyn Gage, including musicals, one-woman shows, one-woman shows, dramas, radio plays, murder mysteries, farces, and comedies.
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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 “The transnational, postmodern magic show of the millennia!” 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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. Sample of music can be heard at www.myspace.com/theamazonallstars
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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 Big, brassy, full-cast mainstage musical about the greatest woman athlete in history, Babe Didrikson! Babe’s struggle for acceptance pits her against the standards of compulsory heterosexuality. Numbers include a high school dance, a choreographed women’s basketball game, and a pajama party on the Olympic train. Sample of songs at www.myspace.com/babeanolympicmusical. LEAD SHEETS, CD AND DVD AVAILABLE SEPARATELY.
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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 Farcical romp that takes a backwards look at the misogyny of Broadway’s musicals through the eyes of the characters themselves... twenty years later!
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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $15.99 Download: $5.00 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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eBook: $5.00 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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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $6.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $6.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 A one-act for five women drummers, in which much of the dialogue is conveyed via the drumming.
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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $6.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $9.99 Download: $5.00 The Gaia Papers is a forty-page tract that applies a lens of radical feminist metaphysics to explore the age-old question of the nature of evil.
Confronting the gendered nature of violence against women and children and the patriarchal systems that promote this violence, The Gaia Papers interrogate the place of “the goddess” in this dismal cosmogony.
Following a line of metaphysical logic pioneered by Mary Baker Eddy in the 19th century, The Gaia Papers invite the reader to draw conclusions about the nature of gender based on a radically feminist spirituality… conclusions that may contradict the evidence of the material senses.
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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 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. Samples of songs can e heard at www.myspace.com/howtowriteacountrywesternsong
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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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. Sample of songs online at www.myspace.com/leadingladiesthemusical. LEAD SHEETS AND CD AVAILABLE.
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Print: $15.99 Download: $5.00 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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eBook: $5.00 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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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 The writing of Little Women is interrupted when the character Jo March and her famous creator cannot agree on the 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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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $15.95 Download: $5.00 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. It also includes women from history whose sexual orientation may or may not have been documented, but whose survival strategies resonate with strategies of lesbians. These strategies include the separatism of Hildegard von Bingen, the confrontation of sexual violation in the art of Artemisia Gentileschi, the liberation struggle of Harriet Tubman, the repression and denial of Louisa May Alcott, the resistance of Mary Mallon (“Typhoid Mary”).
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eBook: $5.00 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. It also includes women from history whose sexual orientation may or may not have been documented, but whose survival strategies resonate with strategies of lesbians. These strategies include the separatism of Hildegard von Bingen, the confrontation of sexual violation in the art of Artemisia Gentileschi, the liberation struggle of Harriet Tubman, the repression and denial of Louisa May Alcott, the resistance of Mary Mallon (“Typhoid Mary”).
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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 The musical score for 'Til the Fat Lady Sings by Carolyn Gage and Andrea Jill Higgins
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Print: $15.99 Download: $5.00 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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eBook: $5.00 Nine of Gage's best one-act plays, including: Battered on Broadway, The Obligatory Scene, Jane Addams and the Devil Baby, Louisa May Incest, The Rules of the Playground, Patricide, The Pele Chant, Bite My Thumb, and Entr'acte or The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped.
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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $5.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $12.00 Download: $5.00 A lively and contemporary French translation of Gage's award-winning play, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc.
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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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,electrifying lesbian underground classic.
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eBook: $5.00 National winner of the 2008 Lambda Literary Award in Drama, the top LGBT book award in the US!
For two decades, Carolyn Gage’s revolutionary play about a cross-dressing, teenaged, runaway lesbian Joan of Arc has been rousing women to resistance—inspiring them to walk out of patriarchal institutions and fight for a feminist vision.
This new collection includes six other powerful Gage plays: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, and Artemisia and Hildegard.
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Print: $14.99 Download: $5.00 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. She inspires women to reach back into their own histories and the histories of their foremothers for strategies that reinforce connection and weave webs of alliances and support.
The Lesbian Tent Revival, held at national women’s festivals, has been a rousing success, and the publication of these sermons should help spread the spark of radical feminism across a world sunk in darkness and disconnection.
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eBook: $5.00 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. She inspires women to reach back into their own histories and the histories of their foremothers for strategies that reinforce connection and weave webs of alliances and support. The Lesbian Tent Revival, held at national women’s festivals, has been a rousing success, and the publication of these sermons should help spread the spark of radical feminism across a world sunk in darkness and disconnection.
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Print: $7.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 “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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Print: $14.99 Download: $5.00 “... 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!
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eBook: $5.00 “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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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 A collection of new sermons for a Lesbian Tent Revival, with a special Songbook with lyrics from some of the best-loved sacred songs from the Revival.
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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $15.95 Download: $5.00 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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eBook: $5.00 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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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 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. Sample of music is online at www.myspace.com/tilthefatladysings. SCORE SOLD SEPARATELY.
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Print: $15.95 Download: $5.00 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.
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eBook: $5.00 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.
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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 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 NO MUSIC FOR THIS SHOW.
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