Tuesday, March 27, 2018
6:00 PM
Labyrinth Books, Princeton
FREE and open to public
Playwright Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), author of The Heidi Chronicles, wrote topical, humorous plays addressing relationships among women and their families, taking the temperature of social moments from the 1960s onward to debate women’s rightful place in their professional and personal lives. We are pleased to invite you to a conversation between critic, teacher, author, and Dean of the College Jill Dolan and Lewis Center Chair and Senior Lecturer in Theater Michael Cadden.
Wasserstein’s popular plays continue to be produced on Broadway and in regional theaters around the country and the world. Her emergence as a popular dramatist in the 1970s paralleled the emergence of the second-wave feminist movement in the United States, a cultural context reflected in the themes of her plays. Yet while some of her comedies and witty dramas were wildly successful, packing theaters and winning awards, feminists of the era often felt that the plays did not go far enough.
Wendy Wasserstein provides a critical introduction and a feminist reappraisal of the significant plays of one of the most famous contemporary American women playwrights and situates Wasserstein’s work in the history of the US feminist movement and in a historical moment in which women artists continue to struggle for recognition.
Learn more about this event at Labyrinth Books: http://labyrinthbooks.com/events_detail.aspx?evtid=1041&loc=
Co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council and the Lewis Center for the Arts.