Notes on fornes (with apologies to Susan Sontag).(Maria Irene Fornes)
American Theatre, September, 2000 by DRUKMAN, STEVEN
The best way to wrap your mind around the plays of Maria Irene Fornes, critic STEVEN DRUKMAN contends, is to abandon all hope of understanding them
LAST YEAR NEW YORK'S Signature Theatre dedicated its season to the plays of Maria Irene Fornes. The roster included David Esbjornson's lapidary staging of Mud (and the curtain-closer Drowning); the New York premiere of the 1993 Enter the Night, confidently staged by newcomer Sonja Moser; and a world premiere of Letters from Cuba, directed by Fornes herself. Several features, reviews and profiles appeared in magazines and ...
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