National winner of the 2008 Lambda Literary Award in Drama, the top LGBT book award in the US!
The explosive, underground classic The Second Coming of Joan of Arc is back in print at last!
For two decades, Carolyn Gage’s revolutionary play about a cross-dressing, teenaged, runaway lesbian Joan of Arc has been rousing women to resistance—inspiring them to walk out of patriarchal institutions and fight for a feminist vision.
This new collection includes six other powerful Gage plays:
The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman:
The greatest actress of the 19th century, a lesbian butch, makes a riotous last stand.
Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter: A lesbian butch stakes her claim to a place in men's history the only way she can.
Cookin' with Typhoid Mary: History's most notorious typhoid carrier tells her side of the story.
The Parmachene Belle: The Maine hunting guide who loved Annie Oakley offers a lesson on fly fishing.
Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist: Radical activism meets one-day-at-a-time therapism in a fight-to-the-death.
Artemisia and Hildegard: Two of the most powerful women artists in history square off on a volatile panel about strategies for survival.
Carolyn Gage is the author of six books on lesbian theatre, and more than fifty-five plays, including musicals, one-woman shows, one-acts, and dramas. She specializes in non-traditional roles for women, especially those reclaiming famous lesbians whose stories have been distorted or erased from history. Her catalog is online at www.carolyngage.com