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| Laura Shamas was born in Oklahoma, and has lived in various places across the U.S., including Tulsa, Los Angeles, and Denver. She is a writer and cultural mythologist. As a playwright, Shamas has had twenty plays produced, nine published, and is included in four anthologies. She has won numerous awards, including a 2007 Aurand Harris Fellowship from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America, a Drama-Logue Award for Playwriting, a Marquee Award, an Edinburgh Fringe First Award for Outstanding New Drama, the Warner Brothers Award, and a Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation Grant. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. In America, productions of her work have appeared in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Denver, and other cities. Her book We Three: The Mythology of Shakespeare's Weird Sisters was published in 2007 by Peter Lang USA. |
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Biographical drama
Full-length, 110-120 minutes
3 females
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
A female adventure story of friendship and freedom, beginning in 1778. Against all odds, two aristocratic Irish ladies and a maid flee abusive homes to start a new life together. Poor, without means or male guardians, they must learn to fend for themselves. Through many travails they arrive in Wales, eager to retire from society, but fate has other plans in store. These "Ladies of Llangollen" become famous for their literary salons; they influence major poets, writers, kings, and queens, and live together happily for 50 years. Their home is now a National Trust Property in Wales.
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| "It is impossible to leave Lady-Like without affection for the dramatis personae, amusement at the dialogue, and satisfaction at learning a welcome history lesson...this Off-Off Broadway evening is more on target than many a Broadway one." |
| --John Simon, New York magazine |
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Seriocomedy
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
11 females (6-11 actors possible: 6-11 females, )
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
In a series of monologues, eleven diverse women grapple with the meaning of dating and romance in the 21st century -- from the promise and pitfalls of Internet dating, to biological clocks, dating as a widow, and the self-help industry. The monologue form functions as a metaphor for isolation in the modern world, and in the end, the women's various struggles coalesce in a scene of unity and hope.
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