American Women — Radio

  • Les Guérillères / by Monique Wittig.

    A radio adaptation of Monique Wittig’s surrealistic drama about militant feminist consciousness transformed into action. The play imagines a literal battle of the sexes in which women, having taken up arms, triumph against an army of men. Contains recorded music. Adapted from an English translation of “Les Guérillères”, trans. David Le Vay (Boston, MA: Beacon…

  • Lady broadcasters : do you have to wear a jock to be one?

    Four women disc jockeys from Los Angeles – Barbara Birdfeather, Gloria, Outrageous Nevada, and Ethlie Ann – discuss sex discrimination in their profession. From folio: “Tonight they assemble for two and a half hours for music and righteous indignation.” Part 2 cuts off abruptly while guests are still talking.

  • Coser y cantar / by Dolores Prida ; produced by Adina Back and Felipe Goroztiza

    Humorous radio drama about a day in the life of a bicultural women in the United States. Funded by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Satellite Program Development Fund of National Public Radio. Cast: Elizabeth Pena. Written, adapted for radio, and directed by Dolores Prida, and performed by Elizabeth Pena. Produced…

  • The Book of hags / by Deena Metzger ; adapted and directed by Everett Frost.

    A novel-in-progress by Deena Metzger dramatized for radio by Everett Frost. The work is a feminist testament to the attempt by women to join inner to outer experience so as to overcome a world conditioned by murder, rape, death, cancer and madness. The drama focuses on four women – Diana, the writer; Arda, the witness;…

  • The Trojan Women

    Production of a tragic play by Euripides, set on the morning after the fall of Troy. The cast in order of appearance: Poseidon: Mitchell Harding; Hecuba: Barbara Watts; Chorus: Cathy Lewis, Sandra Jorem[sp?], Amy Allen, Sarah Lynn Watts, Lynn Kearney, Midge Barnett; Talthybias: Mike Hodel; Cassandra: Ruth Silveira; Andromache: Millie Hellman; Menelaus: Peter Virgo; Helen:…

  • The Lawrence strike / Meredith Tax ; produced by Ann Snitow.

    This program is a history of the Lawrence Strike, a poetic adaptation of “The Rising of the Women: a history of women in the labor movement 1890-1920” by Meredith Tax, to be published later this year (1972?) by McGraw Hill. The chapter on Lawrence was adapted for radio by Ann Snitow. The song “Bread and…

  • The Plight of women in broadcasting / produced by Lois Hansen, Ellen Dubrowin, and Deborah Janone.

    Lois Hansen, Ellen Dubrowin and Deborah Janone of KPFA visited executives at nine representative Bay Area radio and TV stations and asked them about the status of female employees there. Upon discovering the near-total lack of women in any but clerical positions, the KPFA women asked for descriptions of technical and on-air jobs, and tried…

  • Penelope’s web / produced by Judy Chaikin and Naomi Pollack

    A free-form tapestry woven from music, poetry, myths, literature, and drama by and about women. Pieces in Part 1 include: “An ancient gesture” by Edna St. Vincent Milay; “Bell pieces” from Grapefruit by Yoko Ono; “Pain for a daughter” by Anne Sexton; “Man woman sketch” by Naomi Pollack; “Stillbirth” from the Diary of Anais Nin,…

  • A woman’s cry / read by Selma Lawrence and Barbara Kraft

    A montage of selected readings about women’s social conditions, read by Julie Adams, Jo Raskin, Selma Lawrence and Norma Connolly. Readings by Thomas Aquinas, George Bernard Shaw, Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Sand, Joan Didion, and others. Written, produced, and directed by Barbara Kraft. Edited by Everett Frost.

  • Feminist theatre: a woman alone

    The fears, strengths, and hopes of women alone are explored in the reflections of three women. The program was written by Riane Eisler, directed by Constance Pfeiffer and produced by Sherry Tyler and Sue Welch. The original music is by Lynn Patrick. Actress Judith Roberts also appears in this production for KPFK by the Women’s…