Tina Howe – författare

Seven Brief Plays About Women in Distress To go through life as a woman is to be in distress most of the time, so these short plays alight on situations that are inherently distressing -- doctor visits, photo shoots, looking for the right dress and navigating around swimming pools. Since we're blessed with uncanny reserves of strength and imagination, we tend to emerge triumphant. One way or another these are comedies about transformation. Plays include: Appearances The Divine Fallacy Through a Glass Darkly Teeth Water Music Milk and Water Skin Deep

Comedy Characters: 3 males, 4 females Interior Set In Tina Howe's comedy, Chasing Manet, a rebellious painter from a distinguished family in Boston and an ebullient Jewish woman with a huge adoring family form an unlikely bond. Inside the confining walls of Mount Airy Nursing Home, the two plot an escape to Paris aboard the QE2. But can they possibly pull it off amidst the chaos of their surroundings? The tension and comedy grow as they struggle to take wing for the last time. "Chasing Manet has an inspirational message at its core concerning the potential that lives in us all, no matter what the barriers, to defy expectations and take action to attain our dreams." -NYTheatre.com

Where Women Go is a series of three short one-acts for a diverse cast of women of various ages. Tina Howe's eccentric plays explore the humor and absurdity of women's daily lives as they visit the dermatologist eat at Subway and go shopping.To the Dermatologist (7f 1m voice Comedy) - It's 2021 at Your Reflections Dermatology office and Zilla learns that the growth on her legs is lichen planus a type of algae that develops into something more akin to spices and vegetables. One year later the dermatology office now transformed into "Spicy Zilla's Cafe " is selling Zilla's leg spices by the bottle. To the Dermatologist explores the relationship between patients their partners health care staff and diagnosis.To Subway (5f Comedy) - Hannah a regular at her local Subway sandwich shop brings her reluctant friend Clara to Subway for the first time. Eager employees Pudding and Sal greet them enthusiastically but things go awry when actress Alida Valli enters playing the zither. Finally Clara settles on her order: a combo of Black Forest eel rotisserie-style canary and raw eagle legs with a sprinkling of mule ears on the side.Shopping (8f 2m Comedy) - At Ed Singh's clothing stand on the Upper West Side in 2022 at the height of the COVID pandemic seven women shop and fight over gloves earmuffs and other winter wear. Suddenly a man crashes into the shop wearing a parachute and everyone finds themselves in heaven.