About the Author:
MICHAEL SEXTON is a freelance director based in New York City. He has recently been an Artist in Residence at the Public Theater, the Resident Director at New Dramatists, and a Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was born in Brooklyn.
TIM PAGE served, until recently, as the Pulitzer Prize-winning chief music critic for the Washington Post. He is the author of Dawn Powell: A Biography.
From Library Journal:
Powell (1896-1965) was recognized for writing novels, diaries, and letters about her life as a small-town girl who came to the big city to achieve fame and wealth. But Powell also wrote ten plays, four of which are collected here. Only two of themABig Night and Jig SawAwere ever produced, and they are included here, along with Women at Four O'Clock and Walking Down Broadway. Many critics debunked Powell's writing for its feminist skewering of men and society. But, according to editors Sexton and Page, Powell's works encompass a larger cloud of human nature, showing all the mistakes we make just by getting out of bed in the morning. For instance, Big Night tells the tale of an advertising salesman on the verge of unemployment who has invited a potential client from Chicago to dinner. The version included here was assembled by Sexton from two drafts found in the Dawn Powell Collection at Columbia University. Powell's plays, though not critical successes, are valued for the powerfully honest way characters are scrutinized to illuminate the fantasies and vanities that make us all human. Recommended for academic libraries.AJoyce Sparrow, St. Petersburg P.L., FL
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