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June 04 the playwright & the playJoan Schenkar
Playwright and biographer Joan Schenkar is the recipient of some 40 grants, honours and awards for playwriting. Her plays have enjoyed more than 400 productions throughout the world and she has been a guest artist in numerous North American theatres and universities. Her best known plays are collected in Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace (Wesleyan University Press 1998) and her first biography Truly Wilde: the Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece pubilshed by Basic Books/Virago Press in 2000 was nominated for the National Book Award, the Samuel Johnson Prize and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She is currently writing a literary biography of Patricia Highsmith entitled the The Talented Miss Highsmith scheduled for publication by St. Martin's Press/Diogenes Verlag in 2006.
Cabin Fever
In 'Cabin Fever' cannibalism is used as a metaphor for the devouring nature of idle gossip. Three malevolent New England oldsters, ONE, TWO and THREE, sit on their country porch and recite horrifying and hysterically funny stories about local customs in this fiercely unsettling and grotesquely witty play.
"Schenkar's...passion is spoken subtext, catching characters in the middle of the debased imagination."
--Village Voice
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