Plays for Today by Women

An anthology of six new and award-winning plays by female playwrights.

About the author

Cheryl Robson is an award-winning playwright and publisher who founded Aurora Metro Books over 20 years ago to develop and publish new writers in drama and fiction. She also established The Virginia Prize for Fiction in 2009 to promote emerging women novelists. Previously, she worked for the BBC, ran a theatre company and taught in higher education.

Rebecca Gillieron is an editor and musician with various releases on independent labels in the US and UK. Keen to raise the profile of women and the arts, she has worked in publishing for fifteen years moving from Virgin and Penguin Books into independent publishing via The Women's Press, Marion Boyars and now Aurora Metro Books.

They recently started a new imprint to publish books on arts and culture, Supernova Books which has published a history of all-girl bands and will publish a global view of women's film-making.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Barnett, Emteaz Hussain, Adah Kay, Sonja Linden, Gillian Plowman, Amanda Stuart-Fisher, Karin Young
• Assisted by: Rebecca Gillieron (Editor), Cheryl Robson (Editor)
• Publisher: Aurora Metro Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2013
• EAN: 9781906582111
• ISBN: 978-1-906582-11-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 430 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories