Play with a Tiger | Doris Lessing, Women Playwrights, and the Politics of Dramatic Form
In the following essay, Carlson examines the relationship between Anna and Dave Miller in Play with a Tiger.
In her best play, Play with a Tiger, Doris Lessing challenges conventions of both drama and society. Like The Golden Notebook, the play is about relationships between men and women. In it Lessing searches for a freedom in which men and women can coexist, and she demonstrates that such freedom is as rare in the dramatic realm as it is in the fictive realm or in the world. In confronting the politics of both social and dramatic forms, Lessing reveals how inextricably linked they are.
Through her stylized set—part of a London flat ‘‘tall, bare, and formal,’’...
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