From searing Holocaust knife fights to clowns hurling pies, Blood And Beauty offers a dozen unmatched opportunities for actresses to display their stage combat expertise. Filling a critical need in the theatrical canon, these shortplays not only provide women with exciting, gripping, and frequently hilarious stage fights to perform, but also present severe acting challenges.

Dark Lady: Shakespeare"s sonnets come to life.

Red Riding Hood Redux: a fairy tale heroine with attitude.

Death Song: a young Amazon learns the horrible truth of her parentage.

Assail! Assail!: the perils of shopping.

Thorns: a prequel to Macbeth.

Surrender, Dorothy: an all-female construction crew works out a few issues.

Strumpet Voluntary: a true episode from the life of 17th century swordmistress La Maupin.

West: an SS officer seeks redemption from a prisoner he once loved.

Ladies First: a fight class awaits the arrival of the female Errol Flynn.

Boot Camp: basic training with a silly twist.

Fair Warning: a fine-arts auction where the bidding is literally cut-throat.

In Russet Mantle Clad: two Napoleonic soldiers share a deadly secret. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Blood and Beauty