The language is very simple. The scenes dramatize relationships,
but not only between characters in the same time/space. The effect
is for the play to resist narrativization. It can't be easily
turned into a story set in dialog, which is how I think lots
of people want to read plays and do, when the script allows them.
This one, in simple language, presenting a dilemma very accessible
to young women coming of age -- a young woman fighting to make
herself through words, against her past --- demands to be read as
fragments, events - as poetry is read. As performance.
(you wrote:)
>I would _really_ like to hear from people their candidates for 'popular'
>works (written in language and style relatively easily accessible to a
>relatively wide readership) that they think have also made a significant
>number of readers begin to make sense of some social phenomenon in
>genuinely new or different ways?? work that goes against the comfortable
>and familiar ideological grain, but does so in language that seems easy and
>accessible ...
>
>Such as ...?
>
Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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