The Theater of Maria Irene Fornes (Paj Books)

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Summary: Overdue, excellent compendium of critical essays on Fornes
Review: Maria Irene Fornes is arguably the greatest living American avant-garde playwright, and without a doubt one of our most talented (and most underappreciated) writers in any form. This book, edited by Professor Marc Robinson of Yale, brings together a diverse group of essays that take on multiple aspects of Fornes challenging vision of theatre - her feminism, her incorporation of class and race, her startlingly alien yet crystalline language, her search for new forms and spaces in which to create the life of the theater. The essays are of a uniformly high quality and the interview with Ms. Fornes herself offers great insight into how she views her own work. Highly recommended.