Gum
by Karen Hartman
Highlights
What readers are saying
Readers have mixed feelings about this play, appreciating its exploration of heavy themes like sexuality in a repressive society. However, some find it uniquely intriguing despite its sadness and intensity. Overall, it has gained recognition for its distinctiveness and quality.
Synopsis
In Karen Hartman’s "juicyfruit tragedy," two young sisters discover new appetites within the walls of their father’s garden.
Gum explores the need to tame nature in a fictional fundamental country where the title candy is contraband and every desire has its price.
"A brief, intense, beguiling, sensual, witty, impassioned, deeply moving and brightly burnished gem"—
San Francisco Examiner.
Also includes The Mother of Modern Censorship
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Karen Hartman is the author of Girl Under Grain, Troy Women and Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl.
She is a native of San Diego who lives in Brooklyn and is currently the playwright-in-residence at Princeton University.
Publication
Gum is a American play written by Karen Hartman and published by Theatre Communications in New York (2002).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play (eISBN 9781559368261).
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Theatre Communications · 2002 · 120 pp
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