Play with a Tiger | Doris Lessing’s Feminist Plays
In the following excerpt, Krause identifies commonalities between Play with a Tiger and Lessing’s novel The Golden Notebook.
Play with a Tiger, first produced in 1962, shows one evening in the life of Anna Freeman, an Australianborn widowed writer living in London. In the course of the play, she breaks off her engagement to Tom Lattimer, who is on the point of conforming to middle class values; she talks to Harry, a friend strikingly similar to other philanderers created by Lessing such as Graham Spence in One Off the Short List and Richard Portmain in The Golden Notebook; she receives a visit from Janet Stevens, a naive young American woman, pregnant by Dave Miller; she talks intensely and...
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