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- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © MIT Press
- ISSN
- 1520-281X
- eISSN
- 1537-9477
- DOI
- 10.1162/pajj_a_00444
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Abstract
Thinking About Maria Irene Fornes Bonnie Marranca week before we were preparing to send this issue to press, the sad news of the death of Maria Irene Fornes was announced. One of the most A beloved of contemporary playwrights and a master teacher, the bohe- mian extraordinaire was an influential voice in the theatre who had spent her professional life mainly in Manhattan’s “downtown” spaces and in universities and small theatres around the country. Over the years, I’ve noticed that the nar- ratives of her professional life tend to characterize Fornes as an “unknown” or “invisible” figure, a perspective that can easily overlook certain important factors regarding her presence in the field. For instance, there has never been a time in the last three decades that her work has been out of print. In fact, the most recent of the five PAJ volumes of Fornes plays is an expanded version of her celebrated Fefu and Her Friends that now includes the original version, which was staged in five different environments, along with the one-set version she created in 1996. In addition, Fornes is included in all the major anthologies of contemporary American drama and in the Norton Anthology of
Journal
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: Jan 1, 2019