2021 Femme Fatale Plays

Summoned by Vivien Leigh's final companion, Jack Merivale, Sir Laurence Olivier rushes to the apartment where his one-time love has been recovering from a bout of tuberculosis. Viv hopes he's there for one last fling, but Larry needs something more.

https://www.donnahoke.com/

Every Concentrated Fragment is a lyrical exploration of the friendship bonds and the life-outcomes of four factually-based French women Partisans from Nazi-era Europe as they confront the meaning of their arrests on the eve of the Paris deportations during WWII.

http://www.susan-hansell.net

https://newplayexchange.org/users/5806/susan-hansell

https://www.dramatistsguild.com/members/susanhansell

A poetic exploration of four black women describing their encounters with gendered violence and healing. 

https://newplayexchange.org/users/14481/phanesia-pharel

The Lady Romeo, which is set in 1862, centers around the relationship between prominent 19th-century American actress Charlotte Cushman; her friend and lover, the sculptor Emma Stebbins; and a young theatergoer and admirer of Cushman, Matilda Gant. Inspired by seeing Cushman’s performance as Romeo, her admirer ingratiates herself into Cushman’s inner circle, disrupting the actress’s life and her own.

https://elainebrousseau.com/

https://newplayexchange.org/users/58965/elaine-brousseau

Two mothers, who’s sons are friends, have been called to the teenagers’ high school: Galveston High by Principal Strickler. The boys are in trouble for disturbing their classes with a fart machine that one of them has kept hidden in their backpack. The school’s tolerance for their appalling pranks has reached it limits after an extreme display of disrespect during the day’s morning announcements. To keep their sons from expulsion.

https://www.facebook.com/SugarToesCreations/

When childhood friends Robin and Michelle meet up at the county fair for

Michelle’s 40th birthday, they stumble upon a new attraction that promises to use

science to predict their futures. Is it better to know? Is it even possible?

https://newplayexchange.org/users/39709/mindy-r-roll

Passionate about fencing, Laura relishes the art of the duel. But now that multiple sclerosis is turning her body into stone, she escapes her wheelchair only in her imagination. Her frustration and fury spill out in a nightly war of wits against her husband. 

https://www.frisinotoohey.com

https://newplayexchange.org/users/6265/rosemaryfrisino-toohey

Everyone loves a nice cozy murder, especially the Single Ladies Cozy Murder Book Club. When the daughter of one of the club's members experiences a bad breakup, the ladies rise up to offer compassion, empathy...and maybe a little bit of revenge.

https://newplayexchange.org/users/21286/rachel-luann-strayer, https://www.rlstrayerwrites.com

A struggling urban teenager visits her grandfather at his remote cabin in the woods and they quickly realize that the easy days of their relationship are far behind them. 

https://playwrightsguild.ca/paupress/profile/meredith-taylor-parry/view/

A middle aged woman tells the story of how she killed a minister when she was only eight years old. 

A series of darkly comedic dystopian monologues ranging from a perky holographic travel 

agent to a superb mom concerned about her oxygen bill. 

https://newplayexchange.org/users/18702/lavinia-roberts

https://laviniaroberts.com