100 Great Plays for Women: War

100 Great Plays for Women: War
Led by Lucy Kerbel with guest speaker Sam Holcroft

There just aren’t any good plays for women. Lucy Kerbel set out to challenge this assumption in her groundbreaking book 100 Great Plays for Women. In this series she will explore a few of these hundred.

Plays covered in this session:
Cockroach by Sam Holcroft, Women of Troy by Euripides, Goodbye My Fancy by Fay Kanin, Pax by Deborah Levy and Summer by Edward Bond.

This session is 1 of 3 included in the series
100 Great Plays for Women: Part 2 - book all 3 for £54


LUCY KERBEL is the Director of Tonic Theatre and an award-winning theatre director. Having begun her career as Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio and English Touring Theatre, Kerbel went on to direct a range of classics, new writing and productions for younger audiences. In addition to directing she does consultancy, lecturing, and works extensively in theatre education. tonictheatre.co.uk

SAM HOLCROFT's playwrighting credits include Edgar & Annabel (National Theatre); Dancing Bears (Soho Theatre and Latitude Festival); While You Lie (Traverse Theatre); Pink (Tricycle Theatre); Vanya (The Gate); Cockroach (National Theatre of Scotland and Traverse Theatre) which was nominated for Best New Play 2008 by the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland and shortlisted for the 2009 John Whiting Award. She is a recipient of the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize and Tom Erhardt Award for up-and-coming writers. The National Theatre will produce her new play, Rules for Living, in March 2015.