The New Women's Theatre

“During the sixties, much of the theatre did not touch real women in spite of the number of female dramatists. But in the seventies, with the shift in the theatre away from ‘absurdism’ and back to a kind of realism, women have begun to write from their own experience. The women playwrights of the seventies are not part of a single movement; they write in many different styles and come to the theatre with many different life-histories….All over the country, women are beginning to create plays, not only from their own lives, but that dramatize history, bring our foremothers to life.

The volume includes Honor Moore’s play “Mourning Pictures”.