Lemme get back to you when I've had time to actually look at my bookshelves, but some ideas from my Old Favorites pile...
Hapgood's major flaw is only one female part (but really, at a script read, surely some of your women are willing to read male parts?). :)
Sarah Ruhl's In The Next Room (or, The Vibrator Play) is 4F 3M (I think, without checking); all good parts, some larger than others but none small. You'd have to be willing to read about Victorian use of vibrators for nervous complaints. :)
Les Liaisons Dangerueses is in the ballpark of 8 characters, maybe a couple more, about half and half M/F, with some large roles and some small ones, all of which are worth playing. (But it's about sex and people being horrible to each other in witty articulate ways.)
There's always The Lion In Winter (2F 5M).
Or The Importance of Being Earnest 4F 3M plus two walk-on butlers.
I like Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July but mileage varies among people I know who have read it. That's... 4M 4F I believe.
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Date: 2014-01-28 12:45 pm (UTC)Hapgood's major flaw is only one female part (but really, at a script read, surely some of your women are willing to read male parts?). :)
Sarah Ruhl's In The Next Room (or, The Vibrator Play) is 4F 3M (I think, without checking); all good parts, some larger than others but none small. You'd have to be willing to read about Victorian use of vibrators for nervous complaints. :)
Les Liaisons Dangerueses is in the ballpark of 8 characters, maybe a couple more, about half and half M/F, with some large roles and some small ones, all of which are worth playing. (But it's about sex and people being horrible to each other in witty articulate ways.)
There's always The Lion In Winter (2F 5M).
Or The Importance of Being Earnest 4F 3M plus two walk-on butlers.
I like Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July but mileage varies among people I know who have read it. That's... 4M 4F I believe.