Does anyone know of any cool short stories with just two female characters?

Question

it needs to be easily adapted to the stage.

Answer 1

If you're looking for a short play, the major publishers (Samuel French and Dramatists) sort them by what cast you need.

The Dramatists can give you precisely two-female-characters plays; the French page is a bit less helpful but the paper catalog has a useful index.

Be careful about adapting plays from stories yourself. There are issues with royalties.

Answer 2

If you want something that's already a script, I would suggest "The Female Odd Couple." It's adorable! More dramatic, you could pull some scenes from the play "The Children's Hour." There's a classic movie adapatation out with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley McClain that you could get some ideas from as well. Some other standby's could be a scene or two from "Steel Magnolias" or a little known British One-Act called "Nasty Things, Murders."

If you are actually needing to adapt something, I might suggest deriving some scenes from "Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging." It's a British book about a younger girl and the trials of her life. another good young one would be to adapt a scene or two from any of the "Anne of Green Gables" books or "Little Women." Plenty of girls in those.

Going older, I would suggest "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan. It's already been made into a movie, so you could work from there. But it tells the stories of four mother/daughter couples and would be a lot of fun to explore an ethnic story.

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Answer 3

You could read the play called The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband, I am really sorry but the playwright escapes me.
There is a male character in the script, but if you are planning to write your own anyway, it might give you some ideas. Its a quirky little play, and would suit people between the ages of 20 to 40.

Answer 4

I know a book by Balzac, called Stories of two new brides, I wrote the book in turkis so ı could have given a wrong translated name.

Answer 5

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