These short plays by and about women may be presented together as a full evening's entertainment, or separately. PRO GAME, a comedy by Megan Terry, is a pungent indictment of the role models played by parents. Smugly proud that she is teaching her boys about life, Mom eggs them on as they drink beer, fight, and discuss their sexual fantasies. (4m or w; About 25 minutes; Royalty $30) THE PIONEER, a drama by Megan Terry, shows a snobbish, ambitious mother urging her daughter to get married. But the daughter has been turned off marriage by the example set by her parents. Harvey Fierstein played the mother in a New York Production. (2m or w; About 25 minutes; Royalty $30) Plus WALKING INTO THE DAWN: A CELEBRATION, by Rochelle Lynn Holt, traces woman's struggle for equality from ancient Greece to today. All roles may be played by women or a mixture of men and women, (minimum of 8, no maximum; About 50 minutes; Royalty $40) FOR MATURE AUDIENCES. (Omission of objectionable material is allowed.)

Pro Game and The Pioneer by Megan Terry, one of America's most influential and innovative women authors, reveal the influence of mothers on their children. Even though the two mothers in these two plays are far separated economically and socially, the parental impact of each on her children is similar: it's bad. The two short plays "form an evening of explosive theatre, wrought by a playwright of enormous theatrical control," Holly Beye reported in the Woodstock Times review of the New York production. "Both plays are outrageously anti-Mom. They are staggering, larger-than-life-size nightmares. They reek of hurt and despair. They are also very funny." Pro Game presents the mother as a "lower-class frump watching the superbowl with her cretinous sons" and The Pioneer depicts a "wealthy mother urging her sentimental daughter to get married," Feingold reported, applauding "the lightness, the witty clarity, the ease with which all the facets of the situation are caught...the quietly effective comment that is achieved here by juxtaposing the cynical upper-class politics of ['The Pioneer'] with the lower middle-class devoutness of ['Pro Game.']" Holly Beye note that "Ms. Terry, whose 'Viet Rock' established a new frontier in New York Theatre in the 1960's, wrote these two one-acts as vehicles for Harvey Fierstein [winner of two Tony Awards for Torch Song Trilogy on Broadway], who appears in both of them." Ms. Terry, in the playfulness that delighted Michael Feingold, specifies that women play the roles of the three sons in Pro Game; however a male actor played the youngest son in the off-Broadway production.

Walking Into the Dawn: A Celebration is just that—a celebration—a celebration of woman's place in the world from the goddesses of ancient Greece to the leaders and doers of today. The play had its world premiere at Omaha's Magic Theatre, the playhouse that Megan Terry made world famous. It is the first play by Rochelle Lynn Holt, but, as Steve Jordan noted in the Omaha Sunday World-Herald Magazine, "it's not her first artistic work. The Chicago native...also has written poetry, lyrical prose, and novels." Jordan continues:"The play is about what [the author] believes to be the two sides in the women's rights conflict...Some women are tied to the home while others are tied to endeavors outside the home."

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