Plays for Today by Women

About the editorsCheryl 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 Womens Press, Marion Boyars and now Aurora Metro Books.

"The expanse of subjects this short collection covers shows that women are not just writing about the kitchen sink, the claim so often levelled. this collection (provides) a snapshot of an exciting time for female writers" @17percent

• INTRODUCTION 7THE PLAYS:YOURS ABUNDANTLY, FROM ZIMBABWE 14FROM THE MOUTHS OF MOTHERS 54WELCOME TO RAMALLAH 112SWEET CIDER 188THE AWKWARD SQUAD 242FOR A BUTTON 318