SELECTIVE REALISM postwar realistic drama Selective Realism: a type of realism that heightens certain details of action, scenery, and dialogue while omitting others. EXAMPLES of Selective Realism

• Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman (physical elements of the world are symbolic of the psychological & economic problems the main character- Willy Loman faces

• Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (use of a narrator), A Streetcar Named Desire (elements are carefully selected-emphasized that relate- underscore thematic concerns (the lamp) POSTWAR PLAYWRIGHTS

• Arthur Miller (1915-2005) Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible,

• Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• Edward Albee (1928- ) -The Zoo Story, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Three Tall Women, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? GENDER DIVERSITY & THEATRE (1975-present) DRAMATISTS of Diversity • Marsha Morman - ‘night Mother, Getting Out

• Beth Henley - Crimes of the Heart, Impossible Marriage

• Wendy Wasserstein- The Heidi Chronicles, An American Daughter

• Paula Vogel- Baltimore Waltz, How I Learned To Drive EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE

• Omaha Magic Theatre- Megan Terry-playwright

• Spiderwoman’s Collective in NYC

• Foot of the Mountain in Minneapolis, MN

• Women’s Experimental Theatre and The Women’s Project in NYC Maria Irene Fornes (1930- ) off-off Broadway, experimental theatre of the 1960s- and now a part of the canon of Women playwrights/directors/ lyricists born in Cuba naturalized as a citizen in the U.S. lived in Europe returned to NYC- 1957

well-known/produced plays: The Successful Life of 3: A Skit for Vaudeville- won an Obie Promenade (musical)- won an Obie Fefu and Her Friends Mud The Conduct of Life Terra Incognita- revisionist treatment of Columbus Fornes’s work is “… a unique balance between concern with human relationships and social and political consciousness.”