Bye, Bye, Margarita
Gavin Lawrence
Miss Margarida's Way
by Roberto Athayde
Synopsis
Estelle Parsons created a sensation in New York as the title character, a teacher who runs her classroom with an iron fist, velvet glove not included!
Banned, then censored in Brazil (the playwright's homeland), Miss Margarida's Way is a searing drama that looks deeply into the heart of power.
Audiences and critics in over fifty countries have cheered this allegory about totalitarianism that uses a classroom as its central metaphor.
Miss Margarida teaches, teases, and taunts her eighth-grade cla
Press Reviews
"Savage, mad, funny and ultimately moving... [Miss Margarida] is a grotesque, deranged and somehow perfectly normal school teacher."
— The New York Times
"A tour de force for an actress... part tirade, part political allegory, part expressionist vaudeville show."
— New York Daily News
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 2017
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 62
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573618635
ISBN-10 0573618631
LCC PQ9698.1.T5 A813 1977
Miss Margarida's Way is a American play written by Roberto Athayde and published by Samuel French (2017).
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