Girl Stories & Game Plays: an anthology of stories and plays

by Betsy Robinson

Overview

24 Subversive Stories & 3 Funny One-act Plays, including Darleen Dances

 

Girls lost in ice cream and fantasies and a love of comfortable shoes; mean girls; scared girls; naked girls; bald girls.

 

This anthology offers a different (maybe sneaky) kind of journey that builds like a novel ... or something else entirely. A feast of silly, serious, strange, sexy, transcendent, upsetting, and laugh-out-loud funny stories of girls and girl-women. Included among the trilogy of one-act plays is an updated version of the popular audition-monologue play Darleen Dances. The one-acts can be performed singly or as a trilogy using one cast of actors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781088047071
Publisher:	Betsy Robinson
Publication date:	08/10/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	322
File size:	530 KB

About the Author

Betsy Robinson writes funny books about flawed people. Her first novel, Plan Z by Leslie Kove, won Mid-List Press's first novel award in 2001 and is now available in a revised second edition. Her second novel, The Last Will & Testament of Zelda McFigg, won Black Lawrence Press's Big Moose Prize. Robinson is also a playwright whose work has been performed around the USA, a journalist who worked for magazines for many years, and a freelance book editor. See more at www.BetsyRobinson-writer.com.

Table of Contents

Author's Note

GIRL STORIES

ME AND MY GOOD HUMOR

ICE CREAM

SNEAKERS

THE FUR COAT

MAY 4, 1970

JAKEY, GET OUT OF THE BUGGY

PRETENDING

LOST GIRLS

1. Lottie
2. Jessica & Gladys
3. Olivia Frumkin
4. Gladys Mazurky
5. Mrs. Figgery

AFFAIRS OF THE MIND

1. Pose, Please
2. The Coffee Wagon Affair
3. Rosie Shoemaker

SHORT BUT NOT AT ALL SWEET

1. Scrub
2. Turning the Page
3. An American Family

GETTING UNSTUCK

1. Privilege or The Double-Dutch Champion of Nowhere
2. Stuck
3. Metamorphosis or How to Become a Famous Writer or How to Make it Okay to Eat Unlimited Quantities of Candy Corn

AND FOUND

1. Watching the Human Race
2. Love
3. Significance

 

GAME PLAYS

THE STAFF MEETING (a 1-act farce)

W O W

DARLEEN DANCES

Notes for Actresses from the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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