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Along with Fornes’ own engaging commentary on playwriting and the creative process, this anthology includes critical essays on her work with the Judson Poets Theatre and The Open Theater in the 1960s, her shift to greater psychological and formal complexity in the late 1970s, the lyrical politics of her theater from the 1980s and the metatheatricality of her plays from the 1990s. Throughout the anthology, textual analysis is balanced with production criticism.
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| I | The Plays | |
| The Elements of Style | 25 | |
| Cue the Giant Maraschino | 39 | |
| A Preface to the Plays of Maria Irene Fornes | 43 | |
| The Economy of Tenderness | 47 | |
| Still Playing Games: Ideology and Performance in the Theater of Maria Irene Fornes | 61 | |
| Water under the Bridge: From Tango Palace to Mud | 76 | |
| Fefu and Her Friends: The View from the Stone | 85 | |
| The Summer in Gossensass: Fornes and Criticism | 109 | |
| Some Thoughts about Maria Irene Fornes | 130 | |
| II | Fornes in Performance | |
| On the Successful Life of 3 and Other Early Plays | 137 | |
| "To Be Quiet on the Stage": Fornes as Director | 140 | |
| "The Realm of the Unanswered": Actors on Fornes | 156 | |
| "The Poetry of Space in a Box": Scenography in the Work of Maria Irene Fornes | 174 | |
| Selected Performance Reviews | ||
| The Promenade | 186 | |
| "You Take a Yes & a No" (The Red Burning Light and Other Plays) | 188 | |
| The Tragic Mustache (Aurora) | 193 | |
| The Fear of the Ottomans (Eyes on the Harem) | 195 | |
| Let Us Now Praise Famous Women (Evelyn Brown) | 197 | |
| Fornescations (A Visit) | 199 | |
| Enter the night | 201 | |
| III | Fornes on Fornes | |
| A Preface to Tango Place and The Successful Life of 3 | 207 | |
| Order | 209 | |
| I Write These Messages That Come | 213 | |
| Notes on Fefu | 221 | |
| From an Interview with Allen Frame | 224 | |
| Creative Danger | 230 | |
| From an Interview with Scott Cummings | 234 | |
| From "Ages of the Avant-Garde" | 242 | |
| Chronology | 245 | |
| Notes | 249 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 263 | |
| Contributors | 267 | |
| Index | 271 |
Overview
Along with Fornes’ own engaging commentary on playwriting and the creative process, this anthology includes critical essays on her work with the Judson Poets Theatre and The Open Theater in the 1960s, her shift to greater psychological and formal complexity in the late 1970s, the lyrical politics of her theater from the 1980s and the metatheatricality of her plays from the 1990s. Throughout the anthology, textual analysis is balanced with production criticism.