The Ladies Of The Corridor - Hardcover

Parker, Dorothy; D'Usseau, Arnaud

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1258393778 ISBN 13: 9781258393779

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012

Synopsis

Drama

Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Usseau

Characters: 7 male, 9 female, 1 dog

5 Interior Sets

Although THE LADIES OF THE CORRIDOR is not strictly a thesis play, its authors do have a point to make. It is that when widowhood comes to American middle-aged women, only those prepared for a career have any chance for happiness. They are mostly bitter, frustrated, bored, and driven to suicide, kleptomania or constant attendance at the movies. In particular, the dramatists are concerned with three of the women. One takes a younger lover and, despite her momentary happiness, proceeds to drive him from her by her nagging doubts of his fidelitv. Another becomes a solitary drinker, has a sordid affair with a bellhop and ends by jumping from a window. The third is a invalid who wrecks the life of her son by blackmailing him into serving her. The kleptomaniac, and the woman seeking refuge in the movies from her knowledge that her children don't want her, are less dramatic figures who add to the drab and hopeless picture of doomed widowhood. THE LADIES OF THE CORRIDOR is an episodic drama, a sort of "Grand Hotel" of widowhood. Opened at the Longacre with Edna Best, Betty Field. Frances Starr, and Vera Allen. "There are three brilliant and, I may sav. blood-curdling performances in the new play at the Longacre." N.Y. Herald Tribune.

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Review:

a As unyielding and coruscating a portrait of women before feminism that I have ever seen.a
aHonor Moore in "The New York Times," on the 2005 off Broadway revival

As unyielding and coruscating a portrait of women before feminism that I have ever seen.
Honor Moore in "The New York Times", on the 2005 off Broadway revival

? As unyielding and coruscating a portrait of women before feminism that I have ever seen.?
?Honor Moore in "The New York Times", on the 2005 off Broadway revival

About the Author:

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) wrote short stories for The New Yorker for 30 years. She was married to Edwin Pond Parker II, once, and to Alan Campbell, twice. Upon her death she left her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She also provided that in the event of his death, her estate would pass on to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

About this edition

• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1258393778
• ISBN 13: 9781258393779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 136