Carson Kreitzer: women who kill; She writes about real people--including outlaws and icons--at flash points in their lives.(PEOPLE)
American Theatre, March, 2007 by Pender, Rick
"I'VE ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED BY WOMEN WHO break the status quo, who go outlaw," declares Carson Kreitzer. That doesn't mean the 37-year-old playwright is about to become fodder for the tabloids. "For all my rabble-rousing talk," she quickly adds, "I feel pretty strongly the need to be a 'good girl.'" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nevertheless, Kreitzer is attracted to stories of women who go "off the rails," as she puts it.
But in her case, "I think I write plays rather than picking up a gun." More often than not, the ...
Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.