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− | ''Voices'' won an Emmy for a local PBS production in 1975 | + | Written for a 5 woman cast, it is a verse play about the lives of five women, each is facing some crisis in life. They don't know one another, nor speak to each other, but tell their life stories to the audience. It opened to great audience acclaim in New York City. |
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+ | ''Voices'' won an Emmy Award for a local PBS production in 1975 and the text of the play is available in a player’s edition from [[Samuel French]]. | ||
The text was published as ''[[Voices: A Play for Women]]'' by [[Samuel French]] in 1979. | The text was published as ''[[Voices: A Play for Women]]'' by [[Samuel French]] in 1979. |
Revision as of 11:24, 16 November 2022
Voices is a play by Susan Griffin ()[].
by Susan Griffin
The original text
Written for a 5 woman cast, it is a verse play about the lives of five women, each is facing some crisis in life. They don't know one another, nor speak to each other, but tell their life stories to the audience. It opened to great audience acclaim in New York City.
Voices won an Emmy Award for a local PBS production in 1975 and the text of the play is available in a player’s edition from Samuel French.
The text was published as Voices: A Play for Women by Samuel French in 1979.
Translated into Afrikaans as Stemme by Fred le Roux.
ThStemme was performed by Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in a double bill with Dameshandwerk in the H.B. Thom Theatre in April 1980, directed by Herman Pretorius.
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