BLOOD AND BEAUTY: 12 Combat Plays for Women

From searing Holocaust knife fights to clowns hurling pies, Blood And Beauty offers a dozen unmatched opportunities for actresses to display their stage combat expertise. Filling a critical need in the theatrical canon, these short plays not only provide women with exciting, gripping, and frequently hilarious stage fights to perform, but also present severe acting challenges. Dark Shakespeare's sonnets come to life. Red Riding Hood a fairy tale heroine with attitude. Death a young Amazon learns the horrible truth of her parentage. Assail! Assail!: the perils of shopping. a prequel to Macbeth.Surrender, an all-female construction crew works out a few issues. Strumpet a true episode from the life of 17th century swordmistress La Maupin. an SS officer seeks redemption from a prisoner he once loved. Ladies a fight class awaits the arrival of the female Errol Flynn. Boot basic training with a silly twist. Fair a fine-arts auction where the bidding is literally cut-throat. In Russet Mantle two Napoleonic soldiers share a deadly secret.