MICHELENE WANDOR (1940 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Michelene Wandor
AID Thy Neighbour |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre at New End, London | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Journeyman Press, London | 1984 | ||
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| Genre: | political comedy of manners | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: two couples, one lesbian one heterosexual, who are trying to have children and a gutter press journalist | ||||
Aurora Leigh |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1979 | ||
| Company: | Mrs Worthington's Daughters | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays by Women I", Methuen, London | 1982 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ||||
Synopsis: written in verse metatheatrically enhances the split-tension between woman/writer | ||||
Blind Goddess, The |
| 1st Produced: | on tour | 1981 | ||
| Company: | Red Ladder | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 21 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | 1c extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Ernst Toller | ||||
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Brag-a-Fruit |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Care and Control |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||
| Company: | Gay sweatshop | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Strike While the Iron Is Hot, Journeyman Press, London | 1980 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Correspondence |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: broadcast 1978 | ||||
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Day After Yesterday, The |
| 1st Produced: | Act Inn Theatre Club, London | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: About sexual/moral hypocrisy, centering on TV presentation of 'Miss World' | ||||
Floorshow |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1978 | ||
| Company: | Monstrous Regiment | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Sketches and Songs | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with others | ||||
Synopsis: about women and work | ||||
Friends And Strangers Alike |
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Future Perfect |
| 1st Produced: | On Tour | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Steve Gooch and Paul Thompson | ||||
Synopsis: about a Utopia with problems | ||||
Mal De Mere |
| 1st Produced: | Portable Theatre Workshop | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Sink Songs", Playbooks, London | 1975 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: in Point 101; part of To Die Among Friends | ||||
Synopsis: the two women struggle in a circle until one breaks free and establishes her own identity | ||||
Old Wives' Tale, The |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly Theatre, London | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Journeyman Press, London | 1984 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: confrontations between four women in the canteen of an Evening Institute somewhere in North London | ||||
Penthesilia |
| 1st Produced: | Salt TheatreLondon | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Heinrich von Kleist | ||||
Synopsis: retelling of the myth of the Amazons to explore contemporary views about sexual politics and female separatism | ||||
Scissors |
| 1st Produced: | Almost Free Theatre, London | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Journeyman Press, London | 1984 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Jewish family Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Spilt Milk |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Play Nine", Arnold, London | 1981 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | voice | |||
Notes: in Point 101 | ||||
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To Die Among Friends |
| 1st Produced: | Paradise Foundry, London | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Sink Songs", Playbooks, London | 1975 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Five Duologues | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: includes Mal de Mere, Joey, Christmas, Pearls, Swallows; | ||||
Synopsis: chunks of the past cut into pieces and reconstituted on inter and infra sexual politics | ||||
Wandering Jew, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1987 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: written with Mike Alfreds, from novel by Eugene Sue | ||||
Synopsis: what is the connection between orphaned twin sisters from Siberia, an Italian Prince, a young aristocratic Parisienne and a missionary | ||||
Wanted |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playbooks, London | 1988 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: a solution for the childless is surrogate motherhood, a solution made to seem unnatural by much media comment | ||||
Whores d'Oeuvres |
| 1st Produced: | Midland Group, Nottingham | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Hecafe | 1980 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Surreal Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: after a freak hurricane two prostitutes are left on a makeshift raft floating down the Thames, straight uniform confronts casual | ||||
Wild Diamonds |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: also film for Channel 4 TV | ||||
Synopsis: about Olive Schreiner | ||||
You Too Can Be Ticklish |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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