36 Views | Naomi Iizuka: Raising the Stakes: A Young Playwright Mixes the Lofty with the Lowly
In the following essay, Berson traces Iizuka’s background and career.
There aren’t many young playwrights who name the Roman poet Catullus as one of their literary inspirations, along with Maria Irene Fornes and Adele Edling Shank. But for rising dramatist Naomi Iizuka, who avidly studied classical literature at Yale University, some ancient authors retain a bristling contemporary immediacy. And without any musty pretensions, she has enmeshed their archetypal visions into her own very singular, very up-to-date aesthetic.
Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories, a combustible portrait of homeless youth that premiered at the 1997 Humana Festival at...
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