Books by Rae Shirley

A group of women gather at a bus stop and indulge in gossip to pass the time. There are two women, unamed, joined by Mrs Hickery armed with a bag of chips wrapped in newspaper and then by Mrs Finney carrying a shopping bag which she scatters all over the floor. Two well-dressed and not very frequent bus users arrive and there is a little touch of class conflict which never gets very deep. Finally they are confronted by a 'Bookworm', who, when she sees them standing there, informs them that they are going to have a long wait - there is a bus strike!7 women

Having packed her mother, Mrs Morgan, off to a neighbour''s house, Bessie and two friends await the arrival of Madame Maria, fortune-teller par excellence. Visited by royalty, consulted by princes and doing house-calls at fifty pence a time, Madame Maria is a rather surprising apparition. However, Mrs Morgan''s sudden reappearance is not as disconcerting as Bessie had expected!|5 women

Characters: 3 male, 6 female. Representational set Shakespeare's characters are forever famous, not only for the beauty of the lines they spoke, but for wit, humor, and joyous humanity! Six of these great women and three extraordinary men meet in a totally contemporary play! Kate and Petruchio, Romeo and Juliet, daring Henry V, plus Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra, combine to produce a mad and merry tribute to the greatest writer of them all!