Little Wars - Paperback
by Steven Carl McCasland (Author)
A dinner party during the Second World War unites celebrated writers Agatha Christie, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas - with a mysterious guest.
With copious booze flowing, acid-tongued barbs flying, and the threat of global conflict looming, the guests - and the world around them - are close to boiling point. Everyone has a confession. Someone has a secret.Set in the French Alps in 1940, Steven Carl McCasland's Little Wars is an enthralling, entertaining and ultimately moving portrait of seven exceptional women - and a thrilling fiction based on truth.It was workshopped Off-Off-Broadway, first performed in 2015, and received an acclaimed digital premiere in 2020, featuring Linda Bassett, Sarah Solemani, Juliet Stevenson and Sophie Thompson. It provides glorious opportunities for an all-female cast to play some of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.Steven Carl McCasland is a playwright and the founder and Artistic Director of the Beautiful Soup Theater Collective.
His plays include: Fun Being Me (adapted from work by Jack Wiler), When I'm 64, Hope & Glory, Opheliacs Anonymous, Blue, Pulchritudinous (First Place, Huntington Award in Playwriting), Billy Learns About Captain Kirk, Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles (an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), neat & tidy and Little Wars.
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