Dino Audino editore is about to publish a collection of Italian monologues for women, among which there will also be Antonia Brancati's monologue "Col sesso ho chiuso" - "I'm Off Sex for Good" - which is often used for auditions in Italy. The monologue is an extract from the one woman show "Cose che contano e cose che non contano" - "Things that Matter and Things that Don't".

https://fmsbhu.academia.edu/RachanaPandey

2019. “In Conversation with Gautam Chatterjee on Banaras and Theatre.” Muse India 83 (Jan- Feb 2019). Web. (ISSN No. 0975 - 1815) Available at: www.museindia.com  

 2018. (Interview) “In Conversation with Manjula Padmanabhan.” Muse India: The Literary eJournal Special Issue: Indian Feminism 78 (Mar-Apr 2018). Web. 28 April 2018.  www.museindia.com     

2017. “Men in Theatrical Performance.” Muse India 72 (Mar-Apr 2017) Web. 10 Apr. 2017. Available at: www.museindia.com         

April 7, 2019, 7:00 PM 

My Readers Theater play Dear Anita Bryant will be presented at the Desert Rose Playhouse in Palm Springs, CA.

In 1977 singer Anita Bryant kicked off her anti-gay work in an effort to repeal Miami’s new non-discrimination ordinance. Successful, Bryant took that campaign on the road across the country. The next year the Florida legislature ruled that lesbians and gay men were not fit parents. In 1979, I came out as a lesbian and lost custody of my two young children. Years later, I wrote a letter to Anita Bryant. This play, both dramatic and humorous, shares the challenges of pain and the power of forgiveness as it tells the stories of LGBT history during that time through the AIDS crisis to the present.

This play was also produced at the Palm Springs Camelot theater on February 15, 2019 and at the San Diego Diversionary Theater on February 19, 2019. In addition, a youth edition of the play was performed at the Rainbow Youth Summit in Palm Springs on March 2, 2019.

This is an anthology that focuses on the personal experiences of 31 Zimbabwean Women before and after the war of Independence.

Weaver Press, 2018

https://www.amazon.com/TownshipGirlsthecrossovergeneration

Recently published by YouthPLAYS

Benny and Andy take care of one another; that’s what siblings do. Especially when it’s just the two of them against the world, which shouldn’t happen when you’re teenagers, but…here they are. Budgeting their income and paying the bills, talking to the principal, starting college, making still more doctor appointments…and through it all they’ve managed to keep their little house of cards standing. But when Benny steals Andy’s piggy bank, will it all come crashing down?
https://www.youthplays.com/play/the-most-important-thing-in-the-world-by-shoshannah-boray-515

Fable for trauma survivors and compassionate witnesses...  Illustrated by Sudie Rakusin and published by Headmistress Press.

Blue Roses was published by Madwomen in the Attic online with notes by the author. It can be read for free in total here: https://madintheattic.org/2019/01/21/sandra-de-helen/ The play is set in 1940 in a so-called insane asylum in Fulton, Missouri. Two women, both sisters of famous men, undergo lobotomies, while two local working-class women who are employed there set out to save the Roses as well as themselves. [The two Roses are Rosemary Kennedy, sister of JFK, and Rose Isabelle Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams. Both were lobotomized in real life. The play is a fictionalized account.]

Charlotte Higgins' monologue "No Breathing Room" from her play ALABAMA BOUND was published in Spring 2018 in APPLAUSE Books "Later Chapters:  The Best Monologues and Scenes for Actors Over 50." The monologue is the darkly humorous story of a woman at a major crossroads who must choose between saving her own life and her duty to her downtrodden husband and his tyrannical mother.

published by YouthPLAYS

https://www.youthplays.com/play/the-most-important-thing-in-the-world-by-shoshannah-boray-515

for my novel, Annabel Langoni, scheduled

to be published 2020 with Stirling Publishing, Edinburgh, Scotland.