Blood and Beauty

From searing Holocaust knife fights to clowns hurling pies <I>Blood And Beauty</I> offers a dozen unmatched opportunities for actresses to display their stage combat expertise. Filling a critical need in the theatrical canon these short plays not only provide women with exciting gripping and frequently hilarious stage fights to perform but also present severe acting challenges. </p><P><I>Dark Lady</I>: Shakespeare's sonnets come to life. <br><I>Red Riding Hood Redux</I>: a fairy tale heroine with attitude. <br><I>Death Song</I>: a young Amazon learns the horrible truth of her parentage. <br><I>Assail! Assail!</I>: the perils of shopping. <br><I>Thorns</I>: a prequel to <I>Macbeth</I>.<br><I>Surrender Dorothy</I>: an all-female construction crew works out a few issues. <br><I>Strumpet Voluntary</I>: a true episode from the life of 17th century swordmistress La Maupin. <br><I>West</I>: an SS officer seeks redemption from a prisoner he once loved. <br><I>Ladies First</I>: a fight class awaits the arrival of the female Errol Flynn. <br><I>Boot Camp</I>: basic training with a silly twist. <br><I>Fair Warning</I>: a fine-arts auction where the bidding is literally cut-throat. <br><I>In Russet Mantle Clad</I>: two Napoleonic soldiers share a deadly secret. <br>