Calm Down Mother | The Impact of Feminist Theater
In the following excerpt, Keyssar explores Terry’s impact on feminist theater, and discusses the transference of motif from one scene to the next in Calm Down Mother.
Since the early sixties Megan Terry has been a sustaining force in feminist drama, nurturing other American women playwrights and continually extending the reaches of her own plays. Captivated by theatre from the age of fourteen, Terry, now in her early fifties, has written more than fifty dramas most of which have been both produced an published. Reviewers whose attention is fixed on New York commercial successes tend to ignore Terry’s work, but she has received public recognition and support over the last twenty years from numerous foundations and government offices. As playwright in...
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