A rich collection of plays by French and francophone women writers in English translation

". . . a very useful book in the under-researched area of French-language women playwrights."
—Modern and Contemporary France

"Superb translations, an insightful introduction by Judith Miller, headnotes for each play, and an informative playwriting appendix by Cynthia Running-Johnson offer an all-encompassing picture of the diversity and importance of contemporary Francophone women's voices in the theater."
—Theater Magazine

"The plays in Makward's and Miller's anthology present the complexities of our postcolonial world through theatre that was molded in the cauldron of modern French relations and by the linguistic, political, economic, artistic, and indeed academic exigencies of French colonization and trade. . . . The mosaic of experience, fused by women's realities as constructed by women, creates an international canvas that objects to inequality by evoking the imprisonment of women by social, sexual, economic, domestic, and colonial and neo-colonial codes and practices. Furthermore it challenges the audience and reader to see the vitality and manifold personalities, tempers and natures of women."
—Theatre Journal

"This collection sets English-speaking theater scholars and practitioners in compelling conversation with francophone plays and women playwrights, offering a rich diversity of contents, forms, and cultures. By specifying language, hybrids of gender, race, class, and culture are formed; the collective force of these texts blurs the boundaries of nation and language into complex, mutable territories of experience."
—Jill Dolan, The City University of New York

"It is the great merit of this anthology to bring to light eight remarkable plays by contemporary French and francophone female playwrights. They illustrate the multicultural creativity of women and I am certain that such a text will contribute to a better understanding of women's literary discourse."
—Maryse Condíé