Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2000 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575252481 ISBN 13: 9781575252483

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 2002

Synopsis

I have chosen the plays in this book because I think they represent well the incredible quality and variety of new playwriting by women. - D.L. Lepidus, Foreword

About this title

About the Author:

D.L. Lepidus is a freelance critic and editor who has been writing about New York theater for over twenty-five years. Since 1993, his work has appeared in theater columns for the Chelsea Clinton News and the Westsider.

From Booklist:

The plays of Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley, Suzi-Lori Parks, Tina Howe, Marsha Norman, and more female playwrights receive regular, national coverage, but as the annual Women Playwrights well illustrates, there are more talented women in the American theater than those objects of New York Times attention. The relative obscurity of the playwrights included is, of course, a strength of the series' practice of casting the net wide to include not only playwrights with growing reputations but others who are still rarely produced in New York or trying to get a toehold there. Among editor Lepidus' brightest finds for the 2000 volume is Suzanne Bradbeer's Full Bloom, a moving portrait of an eccentric adolescent rebelling against a culture that cares more about how a woman looks than about what she thinks or can do. First workshopped in New Harmony, Indiana, then produced in Barrington, Massachusetts, this sensitive play deserves broader exposure. Jack Helbig
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About this edition

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1575252481
• ISBN 13: 9781575252483
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 305
• Editor: Lepidus D. L.