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Women on the Verge: Seven Avant-Garde American Plays » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Women on the Verge: Seven Avant-Garde American Plays by Rosette C. Lamont

Authors: Rosette C. Lamont
ISBN-13: 9781557831484, ISBN-10: 1557831483
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
Date Published: January 1993
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Rosette C. Lamont

Book Synopsis

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) * Us (Karen Malpede) * What of the Night? (Maria Irene Forne) * Birth and After Birth (Tina Howe) * and more.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Occupational Hazard1
Birth and After Birth45
Us115
What of the Night?157
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World237
Letters to a Student Revolutionary277
The Universal Wolf335

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