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The Angry Young Women in "John Proctor is the Villain" and "Five Models in Ruins, 1981"

by Jan Simpson

A new genre has been developing over the past few years, one that in tribute to the post-war change in British theater I've been calling "angry young women plays."   These new works more or less follow a certain formula: a group of women get together to engage in an activity as in Clare Barron's 2018 Pulitzer finalist Dance Nation, then they start noting how society has misunderstood or mistreated them as in Li…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:02am on May 10, 2025