White Lead
- Short Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 3F
- ISBN: 9781848427693
A short play exploring the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman.
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Description
- Short Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
A short play exploring the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman.
Jessica Siân's play White Lead was first performed at Hampstead Theatre, London, in November 2016, as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival produced by Sphinx Theatre, demonstrating the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage.
The play is available in Women Centre Stage, a collection of eight short plays selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre. All the plays included in this volume offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. Other writers included in the collection include Winsome Pinnock, Timberlake Wertenbaker and April De Angelis.
Premiere Production:
Hampstead Theatre, London, 2016.
Characters
- Casting: 3F
- Casting Attributes: All Female, Good role(s) for female performers
