wives

Four women compete for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives.

Clare Kendry, a beautiful light-skinned African American woman married to a white man who is unaware of her heritage, long ago cut all ties to her past, but a reunion with a childhood friend forces her to confront her lies.

Shares the story behind "The Wizard of Oz," through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's wife, Maud. Shares her journey through her childhood and the connection she made with the actress of Dorothy, Judy Garland.

The first Mrs. Ford was accomplished, beautiful, and exorbitantly wealthy, but now she is dead. The second Mrs. Ford is a small-town waitress who married the man with whom she had a summer romance ten years ago, and never forgot, and now is exorbitantly wealthy. The man linking these two women--one dead, the other one not yet dead--is Connor Ford, whose life is lived among the glittering Hamptons mansions. Connor's life unfolds through the eyes of the two women, his wives, who know and knew him best, and reveal the secrets of who is the real victim and villain.

In Punjab, 1929, the young bride Mehar does not even know who her new husband is, having been sequestered in the family "china room" with the other two women forced to marry three brothers. They are only allowed out at night when Mai, their controlling mother-in-law, summons them to a dark room at night. Mehar, strong-willed, vows to uncover what Mai doesn't want her to know about her new husband. Many decades later in 1999, a young man arrives at his uncle's Punjab house, hoping to find help overcoming an addiction and a history of racism and violence in England, all having to do with the secret that Mehar found out nearly a century earlier.

Thirty-something "millennial everywoman" Kim Jiyoung leaves her white-collar desk job to fulfill the South Korean expectation that she will focus on being a mother to her newborn daughter, full-time. It isn't long before Jiyoung exhibits an alarming species of psychosis--she begins speaking in perfect impersonations of the voices of other women, living and dead. Her husband demands she goes to see a male psychologist, and there, in the male dominated world, Jiyoung lets out her grievances, from her childhood till now.

Hester Prynne, a young woman in colonial Boston, has an affair with a Puritan minister and bears a daughter out of wedlock. She struggles to keep the identity of her lover a secret while she is condemned to wear a scarlet A embroidered on her clothes.

Presents a play about a women struggling for independence from those around her.

"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions inside the Illinois State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois, are overseen by Dr. Andrew McFarland, a man who will prove to be even more dangerous to Elizabeth than her traitorous husband. But most disturbing is that Elizabeth is not the only sane woman confined to the institution. There are many rational women on her ward who tell the same story: they've been committed not because they need medical treatment, but to keep them in line--conveniently labeled 'crazy' so their voices are ignored. No one is willing to fight for their freedom, and disenfranchised both by gender and the stigma of their supposed madness, they cannot possibly fight for themselves. But Elizabeth is about to discover that the merit of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose..."--.

Aaron, a middle-aged man ripped apart by the death of his wife Dorothy, is gradually restored by her unexpected appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market--helping him to live in the moment and to find some peace.