Women on the Verge - Seven Avant Garde Plays

Synopsis

7 avant-garde American plays

This anthology gathers together recent work by the finest and most controversial contemporary American women dramatists.

Collectively this magnificent seven seeks to break the mold of the well-wrought psychological play and its rigid emphasis on realisticsocio-political drama.

Includes: Occupational Hazard (Rosalyn Drexler) Û Us (Karen Malpede) Û What of the Night?

(Maria Irene Forne) Û Birth and After Birth (Tina Howe) Û and more.

Themes

• American drama
• Experimental drama
• Experimental drama--United States
• Experimental drama--Women authors
• PS628.W6 W664 1993