Fefu and Her Friends
Fefu and Her Friends Author: Maria Irene Fornés
First Performance: 1977, New York
Published: 1980
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Living room, lawn, study, bedroom, kitchen, country house in New England, 1935
Cast: 8f
Fefu has an eccentric marriage with Philip (‘They drive each other crazy’). She shoots at him frequently, although she always hopes that the gun is loaded only with blanks. Her friends, Cindy and Christina, are mildly alarmed by her behaviour. Fefu wishes she were a man, for ‘Women are restless with each other’. Julia arrives. She has been confined to a wheelchair since she collapsed a year ago beside a deer that was shot, although she herself was not injured. It seems that she had formerly been tortured, and the gunshot by recalling her trauma induced her paralysis. Emma, Paula, Sue, and...
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