Halley Feiffer is Now an Optimist, but"don't worry"she's still angry at the patriarchy
In Halley Feiffer's new play The Pain of My Belligerence, the story focuses on Cat (played by Feiffer) and her desire and difficulty at figuring out how to function in a world where the rules"created by men"don't work for her. A theme in a number of Feiffer's plays is coercive social forces and women who both recognize them and get trapped by them. As an actress and writer, her work also tends to focus on externalizi…