Fornes’ early work is collected in this volume, including The Sucessful Life of 3, which was produced by the Judson Poets Theatre; Tango Palace, a San Francisco Actors Workshop production, directed by Herbert Blau; and Promenade, an Open Theatre production directed by Joseph Chaikin before going on to a successful Off-Broadway run. Dr. Kheal, A Viertnamese Wedding, and Molly's Dream  round out the volume, demonstrating the continuity of Fornes's vision and technique.

Promenade & other plays (The Winter repertory)

Fornés, María Irene

Winter House

One of Off-Broadway's best-loved plays, originally directed by the author. The audience follows the lives of eight women. For this play, María Irene Fornés received one of her nine Obie awards. "A wonderful, important play." Susan Sontag "Fornes is America's truest poet of the theater." Erika Munk "An extraordinary play of uncommon insight and wit." Los Angeles Herald Examiner "One of the most powerful plays written about the mysteries and shared hallucinations of the female experience." L A Weekly "Though written in 1977, the message of FEFU AND HER FRIENDS remains ever the same: women don't know what to do with feminism. Or rather, they don't know what to do with themselves. It's a strange, unsettling play, not least because the strong women characters are at a loss with each other and with themselves. Without a man to center around, they disintegrate into cattiness and then madness. Fefu is probably deranged to begin with. She 'pretends' to shoot her husband with a gun that may or may not be loaded. She likes men better than women and in fact finds women 'loathsome.' Fefu and her friends are a group of society women, circa 1935. They're bored and affected in the manner of wealthy women who have too much free time. The play begins with plans for a charity benefit being planned at Fefu's New England estate. During the second part, four different scenes play simultaneously in four different rooms. The audience is led around to each in no particular order. In the final act, the women turn giggly, then bitchy, and then everything takes a tragic turn. Though not a realistic play neither is it strictly allegorical...at the heart of the play [is] 'a provocative statement about women to this day.' Fornés's self-loathing, self-doubting women only gradually come to understand the glossy surface and the dark underbelly that is the dual reality of their lives. It's thought-provoking but challenging, not for those who enjoy escapism in their theatre." Jenny Sandman, CurtainUp

Fefu And Her Friends

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.

The celebrated playwright, director, translator, lyricist, and seven-time Obie Award winner, has been an influential voice in American theatre for more than four decades and a highly-regarded teacher of playwriting. Includes: Mud, The Danube, Sarita, and The Conduct of Life.

Plays: Maria Irene Fornes

PAJ Publications

Teatro: 5 Autores Cubanos (Theater Collection, Vol 1) (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Ollantay Pr

Fornes’ early work is collected in this volume, including The Sucessful Life of 3, which was produced by the Judson Poets Theatre; Tango Palace, a San Francisco Actors Workshop production, directed by Herbert Blau; and Promenade, an Open Theatre production directed by Joseph Chaikin before going on to a successful Off-Broadway run. Dr. Kheal, A Viertnamese Wedding, and Molly's Dream round out the volume, demonstrating the continuity of Fornes's vision and technique.

Promenade and Other Plays

This is one of the best-loved Off-Off-Broadway plays of recent decades. In the innovative original production, which Fornes herself directed, the audience follows the lives of eight women in five different "environments.” "Fornes is America's truest poet of the theater."—Erika Munk, Village Voice

Fefu and Her Friends

Humor & Entertainment

“You would be taxed to find a show with a sweeter temper.”—The New York Times
Based on three decades of letters Maria Irene Fornes received from her brother in Havana, Letters from Cuba moves back and forth in time and place and spirit, linking a young dancer and her relatives in Cuba. Also includes Terra Incognita and Manual for a Desperate Crossing.

Letters from Cuba and Other Plays

A major new collection of the plays by Maria Irene Fornes. Includes Abingdon Square, one of the author’s best-known works originally produced in 1987 under Fornes’ direction. This story of a young woman’s personal liberation set in Greenwich Village of the early 1900s is played out in thirty-one sparse scenes of love and betrayal. The title play, What of the Night?, is an epic drama of four short plays on the individual’s struggle with poverty, love, and sorrow. The volume also includes The Summer in Gossensass and Enter the Night.
Maria Irene Fornes is a nine-time OBIE Award-winner, widely represented in the curriculum of contemporary theater in universities, and anthologized in the major contemporary drama textbooks.

What of the Night?: Selected Plays

The new and expanded edition of Fefu and Her Friends celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the beloved play by Maria Irene Fornes, one of the most influential contemporary American playwrights. The volume includes the original version of the play, which takes place in five different environments, as well as a one-set variation, conceived and directed by the author two decades after the 1977 production. Also featured is an interview with Fornes on the play by Bonnie Marranca.
 PAJ Publications has published five volumes of the author’s plays, including Maria Irene Fornes: Plays, Promenade and Other Plays, What of the Night?: Selected Plays, and Letters from Cuba. For her work as writer, director, teacher, librettist, and adapter of classics, over more than four decades, Maria Irene Fornes has received nine Obie Awards.

Fefu and Her Friends: New, Expanded Edition

An important play, published for the first time in book form, by the noted author of Promenade and Fefu and Her Friends

Abingdon Square (Green Integer)

Green Integer

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