Thank You Thursdays: Female Playwrights

I saw Top Girls last night with the ladies on my intergenerational feminist panel and it got me thinking so much about women’s lives, childbirth, sacrifice, our feminist legacy etc. It started out with a crazy theater version of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, where all these women through out history had dinner together and told the stories of their lives (while sometimes interrupting, crying, screaming, and drinking a lot of wine). While it definitely confused me (she’s all post-structuralist and Brechtian in this one), it also made me want to give a big ol’ shout out to Caryl Churchill, the playwright, and other women playwrights over the years who have helped us look at some of our deepest issues through artful lenses.
Some of my favorites are Paula Vogel, Wendy Wasserstein, Nzotkae Shange, Margaret Edson, and Winter Miller.
Who are yours? What plays by women have changed the way you look at the world?