masters – What should be on my reading list of 30 plays about women’s liberation theater?

I am working on my reading list for my masters in English. The theme of my list is Women’s Liberation Theatre (19th/20th/21st century) and I’m asking for any guidance you can offer on what should be on this list of 30 plays. I want the list to focus on women’s issues, but I also want to make sure that this list is robust and comprehensive so that it fully encompasses the issues of women of color, immigrant women, LGBTQAI+ women, and women globally.

Examples of plays I would like to have on my list are:

George Bernard Shaw (English) — Mrs. Warren’s profession (1902) a former prostitute, now a brothel keeper, tries to come to terms with her disapproving daughter

Cicely Hamilton (English) — Diana van Dobson (1908) criticizes many contemporary social problems, including hard labor, homelessness, sexual double standards, and the nature of marriage

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Kenyan) — Ngaahika Ndeenda / I will marry when I want (1977) postcolonial themes of class struggle, poverty, gender, culture, religion, modernity versus tradition, and marriage and family

Josefina Lopez (Mexican) — Real women have curves (1990) Gender Politics and the Latin American Immigrant Experience

Cherríe Moraga (California, USA; White father/Mexican mother) — Giving up the ghost (1986) Chicana lesbian survivor of racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, nationalism, and sexual exploitation

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